Thomas F. Powers – The Trump administration’s opening policy blitzkrieg (on day one alone: 48 “presidential actions,” a record 24 Executive Orders, and 78 past executive orders revoked) has touched many different policy areas, but none more powerfully than DEI. Eliminating the “divisive and dangerous preferential hierarchy” created by “the injection of ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ (DEI) into our institutions” was indeed listed as number one of three policy priorities announced on President Trump’s first day in office (ahead of immigration reform and combating “climate extremism”).
The boldness of Trump’s anti-DEI initiative is indicated by three actions that have surprised even conservatives who have tracked these issues closely (myself included). Continue reading
Rick McDowell – You can find racism in the United States if you undertake a mission to look for it. Maybe at some Black barbershop, a middle-aged White businessman would encounter racism. But do not despair: there is always another barbershop. No need to set that one on fire or create national news in outrage.
J.B. Shurk – I must admit that I have grown fond of this new adjective, woke. It saves me the time of pointing out how delusional, disingenuous, intolerant, illiterate, and religiously fanatical the woke minions tend to be.
Victor Davis Hanson – Wokism has become our most popular secular religion—at least for a moment dethroning climate change. It reduces all of the past and present into puerile binaries between “whites” and “non-whites.”
Patriots4Life – Fox News contributor and Democratic pundit Jessica Tarlov has just about had it with the left’s woke mob — and she wants her party to understand that if they keep following the uber-liberal throng, they are going to make loyal voters “cranky” and turn them into “disenchanted Democrats.” Which, she believes, will cost her party electorally.