From The Washington Post: January 23, 2025.
In the first 48 hours of his second term, President Donald Trump moved to eviscerate the surviving remnants of affirmative action, swiftly upending decades of policy — actions observers say are sure to touch every aspect of American life.
The newly signed executive orders to end “illegal discrimination” and restore “merit to government service” were so sweeping and aggressive that even conservative activists — ones who had been waging a multipronged attack to end diversity initiatives in the private and public sectors — were shocked by their scope and intensity…
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When asked how to bring “diversity” to the Republican Party, Grossman said,
“Republicans should say the whole idea of ‘diversity’ is a bunch of crap and un-American. This country was founded on the self-evident truth that we are all created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights. Among these are ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’.
“Our Constitution incorporates the idea that everybody is to be treated equally under the law.
What ‘diversity’ has become is an excuse for Democrats, Communists, and socialists to say we’re not all created equal. If someone is less qualified, they will get a job anyway, get into college anyway based on the tribe they are in, the group they are in or how many ‘diversity’ boxes they can check…”