Trumps win put DEI on life support heres how he can pull the plug

With President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, radical and discriminatory Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs could be — finally — on the way out.DEI has captured almost every level of education and government.Our CriticalRace.org project has documented how deeply DEI permeates higher education, medical schools and even elite private boarding schools.The Biden-Harris team itself was birthed by DEI, after then-candidate Joe Biden came under intense pressure to pick a “woman of color” as his running mate.

His choice, Kamala Harris, fully embraced DEI in her 2024 campaign, even creating Zoom calls for different racial, ethnic and sex-based interest groups: “White Women for Harris,” “white dudes,” “black women” and so on.Turns out, voters didn’t buy Harris or the DEI she was sellingTrump’s win, driven by a broad multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-religious coalition, puts DEI on life support.It’s time to pull the plug and let DEI die.In a July 2023 video posted as part of his Agenda 47 policy series, Trump focused heavily on his promise “to fire the radical Left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated by Marxist Maniacs and lunatics.”Elon Musk, Trump’s new government-efficiency adviser, re-circulated the video this week, indicating its importance in the president-elect’s agenda.Focusing on accreditors will make a real difference long-term.The US Department of Education has oversight authority over higher education accreditation agencies — and groups like the American Bar Association, for example, use legislative-appointed near-monopoly status as a means of driving DEI into universities and graduate schools.Trump has also promised that his Department of Justice will “pursue federal civil rights cases against schools that continue to engage in racial discrimination,” defying the Supreme Court’s landmark 2023 decision outlawing affirmative action in admissions We are all for that, but to ramp up the pr...