Is this the end of the DEI regime? by James Piereson

The collapse of the DEI regime might easily trigger a political realignment in the United States and a reorganization of progressive parties and political doctrines. After all, the progressive movement and the Democratic Party, along with the upper reaches of higher education, have organized themselves for decades around identity politics, while providing crucial support for the regime. The beneficiaries of DEI programs are in all cases members of key constituent groups of the Democratic Party. The advocates for identity politics captured the Democratic Party as long ago as the 1970s: the party is now completely in thrall to those groups and the ideological doctrines associated with them. They have also captured the faculties of leading universities and populated the federal government with countless enforcement bureaus and agencies staffed by fellow travelers in the diversity movement. The end of DEI will provoke confusion and crisis among progressives, Democrats, and left-wing faculty members and administrators at elite universities. How will they react how will they organize themselves as the movement that has provided their raison d etre for a half-century collapses around them? It may take them years or decades to sort it all out.

There are lessons here: certainly that elections have consequences, which is true in this case but not always so and also that the most deeply entrenched programs and policies are sometimes built on foundations of sand.

via newcriterion.com

Here’s hoping.