The Trump administration has moved to eliminate racial preferences at the service academies. That’s good, but the proponents of “diversity” won’t give up easily.

In today’s Martin Center article, J. A. Cauthen, a graduate of the Naval Academy, looks at the situation and worries that the diversity mania will readily return in a future Democratic administration.

Cauthen points out that in litigation against the Naval Academy’s racial preferences, the judge sided with the school in one of those typically deferential rulings. So we have legal precedent that the academies can keep on using racial quotas, thinly disguised.

He continues:

The current corrective to this corrosive argument and ruling has come not through the judicial appeals process but by Presidential Executive Order and Secretary of Defense Memorandum. Both orders direct the armed forces to return to a colorblind, non-discriminatory policy, including the military service academies. “President Trump is committed to a merit-based system of sex-neutral policies and colorblind recruitment, promotion, and retention,” a White House fact sheet pledges, and Secretary Hegseth’s order explicitly prohibits the three military service academies from using race, ethnicity, or sex in their admissions processes. Merit will be the only measure for admissions — for now, at least.

That’s good, but the diversity zealots are eager to get back to one of their favorite social engineering projects. Read the whole thing.