Trump and MAGA want to make eugenics great again

^{“Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Prescott Valley Event Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona” by Gage Skidmore licensed under CC by SA 2.0} 

Millionaires and billionaires, pioneers in robotics, nanotechnology, crypto-currency, AI and private space explorations, financiers of the campaign and prominent in the new administration, are leaders in the technologically improved eugenics. Where might they lead us?

In the late 19th century, a pseudo-science emerged to “scientifically” validate the age-old proposition that human progress depended on the reproduction of genetically superior people who were easily identifiable by their wealth and power. By the turn of the century, the American Breeders Association became the first scientific organization in the U.S. to propose eugenics as the solution to improving society.

Progressive academic, medical and political circles in the U.S. supported the claim that genes determined physical characteristics from one generation to the next as well as intelligence, mental health, behavior and morality. Indiana passed the first eugenic sterilization law in 1907.  Thirty-one states, Maine included, followed suit, supported by the U.S. Supreme Court in Buck vs...