This past November, when political winds changed, D.E.I. became a convenient fall guy; the best way to signal that you never wanted to engage with wokeness in the first place was to fire your D.E.I. staff and blame them for forcing you down the wrong path. “Trump, I believe, is doing something similar at a grand scale,” Jay Caspian Kang writes. “He is taking a relatively powerless program, vilifying it, and using its dissolution as proof that he has single-handedly ended the woke era.” The clearest example came on Thursday when he outrageously blamed “diversity” for the tragic airline crash in Washington.

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This past November, when political winds changed, D.E.I. became a convenient fall guy; the best way to signal that you never wanted to engage with wokeness in the first place was to fire your D.E.I. staff and blame them for forcing you down the wrong path. “Trump, I believe, is doing something similar at a grand scale,” Jay Caspian Kang writes. “He is taking a relatively powerless program, vilifying it, and using its dissolution as proof that he has single-handedly ended the woke era.” The clearest example came on Thursday when he outrageously blamed “diversity” for the tragic airline crash in Washington.
 
But these first two weeks of Trump’s Presidency have made it clear that his main priority, at least for now, is controlling federal funding and using it to enrich his allies and to harm his political enemies. “Trump’s endgame has started to reveal itself and it will not be coming through the tired culture war we have all been fighting for the past decade but rather through the bureaucracy,” Kang continues. “The war on D.E.I. is almost certainly a catchall scapegoat meant to distract from Trump’s larger plans to gut the federal government.” Kang writes about the true point of Trump’s war on D.E.I.

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