From the article:
DONALD TRUMP’S DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE likes to present a tough-on-crime image. But how far it goes to cultivate that image has been a recurring source of controversy. It’s not just the prosecution of political opponents and the greenlighting of immigration crackdowns that largely dispense with due process. It’s also in the rhetoric—which often veers into the disturbing and the bizarre.
Last week, one of the department’s top prosecutors argued that, in the pursuit of cracking down on criminals, eugenics could be a useful tool.
The prosecutor in question was Ellis Boyle, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Boyle was appearing on a local conservative livestream, NC Chats, to discuss—among other things—the administration’s investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar, as well as the indictments of a handful of noncitizens for having allegedly voted illegally in the 2024 elections in North Carolina. Eventually, however, the conversation turned to crime, the supposed enabling of it by liberals, and how frustrating it is to see violent criminals get off on an insanity defense.
“I think there’s a big component—if you took out [the] 5 percent of the population that’s bad and removed them from society, so they don’t create mayhem and create, you know, babies with the gene pool of more bad, then I think, in two, maybe three generations, think of how great this population would be.”
“But,” he finished, “that’s something that takes willpower.”
“That’s very biblical,” Clark said. “I like it.”
“Praise the Lord,” Boyle replied.
I know racism or bigotry isn’t based in fact, but I cannot understand how eugenics is even supposed to work. Even if “bad” was a genetic quality, wouldn’t it be diluted as it passes down? Human offspring don’t become an arbitrary percentage more of all of their qualities. Like, under any level of scrutiny, even not knowing how genes work at all, I don’t understand how people believe it.