Is America ready for a DEI president?
Make no mistake: that’s exactly what Kamala Harris would be. Old Joe Biden made that clear when he announced during the 2020 campaign that he was going to choose a black woman as his running mate. Identity politics, not the quality of the candidate, came first. Over the intervening three-plus years, Harris has made it abundantly clear that she is only the vice president, and now the presidential candidate of the Democrat party, because she is (marginally) black and female (whatever the Dems think that is).
As far as the political and media establishment was concerned, Harris’ incompetence was no problem. Anyone who dared to notice her inane statements, her word salads, and her nervous cackle when cornered was just a racist and a sexist, and thus unworthy of serious consideration from the party that claimed to stand against “hate.”
This has worked for a long time. It has worked so well, in fact, that numerous careers have been destroyed and worthy voices silenced or marginalized over spurious charges of “racism’’ and “bigotry” for daring to notice that the emperor had no clothes. Recently, however, the act has begun to wear thin.
The entire Diversity, Equity, Inclusion initiative was on trial as never before during the Monday grilling of former Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) told her, “Ma’am, you are a DEI horror story.” Burchett later added, “You’ve got a DEI, basically, person — a DEI initiative person — who heads up our Secret Service. You know she was working at Pepsi before this. I know she was a former Secret Service agent, but still. This is what happens when you don’t put the best players in. It’s a complete failure on our part.”
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) agreed: “Under Director Cheatle’s failed leadership, the United States Secret Service has prioritized woke DEI policies over the core responsibilities of the Secret Service, including protecting our nation’s leaders. This lack of leadership contributed to the first assassination attempt of a President in 43 years. Director Cheatle has got to go!” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said, “The DEI hire Secret Service Director should RESIGN after Saturday’s catastrophic failure.”
Yes, these are all what the media likes to tar as “far right” representatives, but there is no doubt about it: Americans are increasingly disgusted with DEI programs elevating incompetent people, and they are less and less afraid to say so. An anti-DEI trend is gathering steam. Last year, colleges and universities all over the country began quietly dropping their DEI programs, to the consternation of the far-left propagandists at CNN. The same thing is happening in the corporate world as well: the Washington Examiner reported Tuesday that “after years of Wall Street and corporate America embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion, the tides now appear to be shifting, and some companies are beginning to de-emphasize or reorganize their DEI efforts….Some corporations have reorganized their DEI departments, de-emphasized them, or even disbanded them in recent months — all amid one of the most divisive election years in modern history."
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In this atmosphere, the Dems might find it more difficult than they think to ride the “Vote Kamala Harris: She’s A Black Woman!” train all the way to the White House next Jan. 20. Many Americans are disgusted with all the quotas and the concomitant passing-over of qualified people in favor of those who check off the right race and gender boxes. The Biden regime has been a DEI circus of freaks, hacks, perverts, misfits and sociopaths, giving the world a vivid lesson in how vastly superior is a system in which office-holders are chosen on merit, rather than on the ability of officials to boast about how they appointed the first differently-abled trans Muslim person of color (or whatever) to hold high office in the United States of America.
There’s no doubt that the Dems will be running a DEI-based campaign to elect Harris. After all, it worked in 2008, when Americans turned out in droves to prove they weren’t racist by voting for the black candidate, only to have him tell them that they were racist anyway. But 2024 isn’t 2008. The same bullying tactics may not work this year, and that toughest of all glass ceilings could very well remain unshattered.
