President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks Friday, July 3, 2020, at South Dakota’s 2020 Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, S.D. (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour)
In The New York Sun, F.H. Buckley explains his view that Donald Trump’s promise to rid the federal government of DEI standards can’t be fulfilled too soon. He writes:
The new administration has vowed to eliminate the federal government’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, and it couldn’t happen too soon. The preoccupation with racial justice has aggravated racial tensions, not relieved them. The left became race-obsessed, and its knee-jerk accusations of racism have suppressed the benevolent instincts of everyone else.
Have you watched the videos of how the legacy networks covered the election, and seen how quickly the glee turned to despair? And then, when Trump’s victory was official, we heard the accusations. Americans had been given a test, and we had failed. We had been given the opportunity to vote for a woman of color, and instead had disclosed our misogyny and racism.
The censorious talking heads had exposed the left’s divisive electoral strategy. Pick the furthermost left-wing candidate out there, and if he’s a minority tell the voters that their biases are on the line. It worked in 2008 but failed in 2024. We didn’t reject Vice President Harris because of her sex and race. Just the opposite. She had been chosen because of her race and sex, and other than that had nothing going for her.
In 2008 Americans took a quiet pride in the fact that a community activist defeated a war hero for the presidency in 2008. The activist ran against an unpopular war, but there was one other thing going on. The activist was black and the war hero white, and when the votes were counted Americans felt that they had put their prejudices behind them.
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