Imagine that after careful study a government official — say, the president or one of the party leaders in Congress — reaches a considered judgment that a particular course of action is best for the country. Suddenly, someone bursts into the room with new information: a group of white propertied men who have been dead for two centuries, knew nothing of our present situation, acted illegally under existing law and thought it was fine to own slaves might have disagreed with this course of action. Is it even remotely rational that the official should change his or her mind because of this divination?
So people that aren't of his approved skin color, rich and "know nothing of our situation" shouldn't be listened to. Yeah, those no-nothings didn't understand how government is always good and never threatens our freedom.
I want to re-write the constitution and the first article says that all professors and journalists must be lined up against a wall and shot.
He doesn’t seem to realize how easy it is to flip his argument around. Too easy, almost, to be worth response. It only works if Dead White Males are evil, as he insists. But imagine if evil Living White Males gained control of the presidency and Senate now, and all that stood in the way of overturning the legacy of Dead Rainbow Multigendered progressives were for a lib majority in the House to drag its feet. See how fast he’d dogmatize and demand absolute fealty to the Constitution as interpreted since the New Deal.