There’s now a very noticeable pattern that plays out every time we witness a colossal failure on the national stage. It happened after the Secret Service allowed Donald Trump to get shot in the head in Pennsylvania. It happened after Harvard’s president was exposed for plagiarism, and after Kamala Harris lost the presidential election.
Here’s how it usually goes: Conservatives pointed out that DEI was involved in some way. And then everyone on the Left acted with shock and indignation at the mere suggestion that DEI might have backfired.
DEI, they tell us, is an essential mandate that always adds value. It’s vital to every organization. And then, in the same breath, they tell us that DEI can’t possibly be related to any failure by any organization or government agency that practices DEI. In other words, DEI is either critically important or not important at all, depending…
