The Rise and Impending Collapse of DEI

Donald Trump’s victory was in part a decisive repudiation of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), the odious, unconstitutional, racist, and sexist grift concocted by the extreme Left as a radicalized form of affirmative action. DEI is based on Critical Race Theory (CRT), the doctrine that all whites are bigots. It has been fused into the firmament of academia, government, and business by the far Left, those beholden to it (particularly Joe Biden), and those fearful of it (including corporate boards and CEOs).

DEI and CRT have destroyed the careers of straight white men and Asians, humiliated blacks and other minorities who can excel without preferences, reduced government effectiveness and business productivity, savaged American exceptionalism, violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and vitiated a century of federal civil rights laws...

Despite more than a century of Supreme Court decisions forbidding discrimination on the basis of race, using executive orders, legislation, rulemaking, and contracting requirements, Biden and his team of DEI advocates and beneficiaries zealously imposed this bigoted and demeaning malignancy throughout the federal government, on state and local governments, and on private industry...

In a detailed memorandum to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Tom Cotton summarized examples of—and the disastrous reaction among our troops to—compulsory CRT training in the military...

DEI reached its peak with two Biden picks: Kamala Harris and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, both of whom were selected in processes limited to black women...

Violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments, federally funded universities and the U.S. State Department required their professionals to pledge fealty to DEI as a condition of being hired and promoted (see here and here)...

As Chief Justice John Roberts declared in 2007, using racial discrimination to undo racial discrimination doesn’t work: “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race”...

The Trump Administration cannot restore the principles and promise of American exceptionalism without ending DEI.