It’s clear why Trump blames DEI for everything | Judith Levine
Everyone but the credulous media seems to understand what’s behind Trump’s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion
It took fewer than 12 hours after Wednesday’s disastrous plane collision at DC’s Reagan National airport for Donald Trump to display his most powerful instinct: blaming others, whether the real guilty party is himself, one of his cronies, unknown, or no one at all.
In a press conference on Thursday morning, the president moved quickly through the scripted “bonds of affection and loyalty that unite us all”, the heartbreak and “solace in the knowledge that their journey ended not in the cold waters of the Potomac, but in the warm embrace of a loving God”. Then he got down to business, naming his always-prime suspect, after “illegal aliens”: diversity, equity and inclusion.
Judith Levine is a Brooklyn journalist and essayist, a contributing writer to the Intercept and the author of five books
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