Former President Donald J. Trump has consistently and correctly called out many in the Democratic Party, the left, and various Neocons who continually want to force our nation into military conflicts or outright war.
That acknowledged, maybe there is one "war" former President Trump could get behind. One that he must get behind. That being a war against the far-left DEI policies which are threatening our health, our safety, and our national security.
Why Trump?
Earlier this month, the New York Times Frank Bruni spelled it out during an interview with Margaret Hoover over at PBS.
HOOVER: “I want to talk about grievance on the left and then go to the right. On the left, you talk about how it can take the shape of what we call wokeism: critical race theory, DEI programs, and concepts like micro aggressions. Broadly speaking, do you think the left's embrace of these concepts has generated a backlash for the Democratic Party, and how?”
BRUNI: “Well, I'll answer your question about a backlash with two words, a proper noun actually: Donald Trump. I think when we examined all the reasons he had the success he did in 2016, a big share of that success was people saying, I'm tired of having my language patrolled. I don't want to worry about being canceled. I feel like there is this oppressive orthodoxy coming from the progressive left. And people responded positively to this man who just smashed through those rules, who said, I'm having none of it. Who kind of modeled a rebellion against that that they found cathartic and appealing. And I think that is the greatest example of backlash.”
Trump is the face of the backlash and I believe only Trump can defeat the DEI Army now overrunning every institution in our nation.
As I have stressed in the past, I don’t care if someone is gay, straight, trans, black, white, brown, male, female, faith-based, or atheist. If that person is truly qualified for a job based on merit and experience alone, they should get it. Period.
That commonsense qualification metric should apply to all jobs but most especially those in which human life could be at risk if the employee is not qualified. A list that must include those who protect us, such as the police, firefighters, and the military; those who transport us, such as pilots, air traffic controllers, bus drivers, train engineers, and ship captains; and those in the medical field. Just to name a few.
But, as we all know, every single one of those occupations has been upended by far-left DEI mandates which are threatening the health and safety of us all. Some more than others.
One trend – which is truly alarming – is taking place in the medical and science fields. Two recent reports – one in the Free Press and the other in the Washington Free Beacon – outlined how truly troubling and chilling this trend has become. Both from a threat to a qualified healthcare and facts perspective as well as from a blatant and surely illegal discrimination against the qualified, perspective.
As the Free Press headlined: “Yale Tells Hopeful Scientists: You Must Commit to DEI.” As the piece went on to detail: “When making hires at Yale’s department of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, faculty are told to place “DEI at the center of every decision,” according to a document tucked away on its website.” A mandate which has infiltrated virtually every single college and university in our nation.
Next, we come to the report headlined in the Free Beacon:
“'A Failed Medical School': How Racial Preferences, Supposedly Outlawed in California, Have Persisted at UCLA.”
The report goes on to detail that “Up to half of UCLA medical students now fail basic tests of medical competence. Whistleblowers say affirmative action, illegal in California since 1996, is to blame.” Again, this is a trend which is taking place at virtually every single medical school in the country. The far-left deans and administrators are often choosing “identity politics” over merit and experience.
In deep blue Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass has stated that she is determined to remove "obstacles" for police recruits who fail to initially qualify for training as a means of further diversifying the Los Angeles Police Department. Excuse me?
In response, Tom Saggau, spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) responded: "We think that particular provision or that goal or that idea is dangerous. … If you have police officers that can't make minimum qualifications or attained minimum standards, for instance, there are recruits that have been in the academy that just can't score the minimum requirements for a physical fitness test. … One hundred is the maximum score, 50 is acceptable. There are folks that are scoring under 10. That's just dangerous."
More than “dangerous,” it’s insane. And yet, that is now the far-left directive in every profession in which the safety of human beings is in the hands of those hired to be in control.
Such as the airline industry where certain airlines in both the United States and the European Union are pushing DEI mandates for the hiring of all pilots and co-pilots. A policy so frightening that one senior pilot I spoke with said he chose to retire early rather than risk his life flying with unqualified pilots or on aircraft being maintained by unqualified mechanics.
More than every profession, the DEI Nanny-State commands have infiltrated all of our military as well as our service academies. “Go woke” is now the order of the day in the Navy, Army, Air Force, the Marines as well as at West Point, the Naval Academy, and the Air Force Academy.
But, at what real cost to our national security, our personal health, our personal safety? How long before we reach the tipping point where all is lost when it comes to ensuring such security and safety?
Before we reach that point of no return, I suggest that we launch -- and win -- a war against these self-destructive and dangerous DEI mandates. We will need a leader and an all-volunteer army to win it, but I am confident with Trump taking charge, the enlistees are out there by the tens of millions.
Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official and author of the book: The 56 – Liberty Lessons from Those Who Risked All to sign The Declaration of Independence.
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