Donald Trump’s relentless attempt to erase the slightest trace of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) – it used to be called “woke” – from American institutions has pushed DEI to the margins of a political conflict that is growing more intense by the day in the US. In fact we’re now well beyond the culture war that DEI used to be part of: the administration’s strategy of using DEI as a pretext to reconfigure generations of custom and law almost makes you want to leap to its defence. From health agencies to the Federal Aviation Administration to the Department of Defense and beyond, Trump is firing tens of thousands of people under the pretence of removing agents of “woke”, savaging the American state in the process.
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