As the economy worsens and businesses and universities are wisely ditching their “diversity, equity, and inclusion” departments, President Joe Biden is doing everything he can to keep racist DEI practices alive in the federal government.

Biden has signed an executive order that would require all federal agencies to create “equity leadership teams” and release yearly “action plans,” indicating how they will use the racist worldview of DEI programs in federal operations and employment.

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This matches with how Biden has run his administration — constantly seeking out racist and sexist policies that benefit the groups upon which Democrats want to confer privilege. Biden had sought to impose racial and gender quotas on aid for small businesses and farmers during the pandemic. He’s used his Cabinet not to assemble competent managers but to fill out his diversity collection, with tragic results — who needs a competent Transportation secretary when you can have the first one who happens to be gay?

Biden and Democrats like to see this as progressive, but it is really just the discrimination on which the Democratic Party thrived for 100 years after the Civil War with an updated paint job. Biden views the world through the lens of skin color and gender only, and he is now instructing federal agencies to do the same (if they haven’t already). Biden is dragging the country backward, encouraging racial divisions and divisions along gendered lines.

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Fortunately, this backward worldview is being obliterated in other areas of life. Biden’s incompetent, identity-obsessed administration has ironically caused a mediocre economy that is leading businesses to shed DEI jobs. DEI layoffs have been most prominent in the technology industry. And universities are being forced to put the woke genie back in the bottle in states such as Florida and Texas, as Republican governors and legislators rightfully focus on tearing down bloated DEI bureaucracies that run rampant through college administrations.

It will likely be up to one of those governors to take these policies to the White House through the 2024 presidential election and roll back Biden’s preferred racist policies. DEI racism and identity-driven divisions are on their way out. They must be rooted out of government agencies with fire and the sword.