"In rejecting Kamala Harris — yet another Biden pick who was chosen for her race — voters have rejected this whole racial project." Ellie Gardey Holmes
"Four years ago, when then–President-elect Joe Biden was selecting members of his Cabinet, one concern dominated: diversity.
"The pressure to choose candidates for top offices who were either women or from minority races was immense. Politico reported in November 2020 that Democrats “expect[ed] him to nominate the most diverse Cabinet in history.” Luckily for DEI-obsessed Democrats, Biden was happy to comply. After all, the president had promised to create a government that “looks like America.” In the end, the president’s administration was judged by numerous media outlets to be “the most diverse ever.” CNN totaled in January 2021 that 50 percent of Biden’s nominees for Cabinet positions and Cabinet-level positions were “people of color.” Biden had also named the most-ever women as Cabinet secretaries.\
"In rolling out his picks, Biden repeatedly framed the selections through the lens of diversity. For instance, when Biden announced his senior communications staff, he led with the fact that they were all female. “I am proud to announce today,” he said, “the first senior White House communications team comprised entirely of women.”
DEI Rejection
"Ultimately, the selection of the most racially diverse Cabinet ever did not lead to a desirable outcome for Biden. A major shift to the right among minority groups, a growing recognition that DEI is toxic and unfair, and electoral defeat soon followed.
"President-elect Donald Trump has strongly rejected Biden’s strategy of picking Cabinet appointees based on race, even though his proposed Cabinet is diverse in gender and race. As Alex Stroman, a former South Carolina GOP state party executive director, explained last week: “I think that’s where the country is at: we want a Cabinet that is diverse based on many different experiences and backgrounds, be it sexual or racial, economic, or cultural…. But the American people don’t want diversity for the sake of diversity.” Indeed, Americans are done with officials being chosen for what they represent over what they can provide to the country.
"With that in mind, it’s worth looking back on just how utterly race dominated Biden’s Cabinet selection process, and how this reaped a whole-of-government obsession with race. Repeatedly, Cabinet members who were selected for diversity, equity, and inclusion reasons went on to obsess over DEI in their own leadership — to the extent that the administration became a giant conglomerate of DEI." . . .
The Biden–Harris administration stopped working for the American people.
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