As Donald Trump and his posse continue to dismantle democracy in the United States, two of their favorite demons are DEI (“woke” and CRT, etc.) and liberal elites—both of which are easy targets.
They are also false flags.
This week we’ll spend most of our time unpacking Project 2025’s very real attacks on diversity, equity, inclusion, the word woke, and critical race theory, and, without minimizing these attacks in any way, we’ll explore the ongoing dismantling of democracy, of which this series of attacks on DEI is one symptom.
Notes and Sources
The Heritage Foundation, Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise - Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project, (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), 3. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088042-project-2025s-mandate-for-leadership-the-conservative-promise/
Ibid., 4-5.
Ibid., 5.
Ibid., 5-6.
Ibid., 7-8.
David French, “Trump’s Decision to Fire the JAG Generals Gives the Game Away,” New York Times, February 27, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/opinion/trump-hegseth-pentagon.html
Kathryn Dunn Tempas, “Tracking turnover in the Trump administration,” January 2021, Brookings Institution, https://www.brookings.edu/articles/tracking-turnover-in-the-trump-administration/
Nik Popli, “Everyone Who’s Resigned From the Trump Administration in Protest,” Time, February 26, 2025, https://time.com/7259962/trump-administration-officials-resign/
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