House of Cards

DEI and affirmative action seem to be folding like a house of cards built on sand. 

This is astonishing and perhaps the best and least expected political outcomes of my lifetime. How something can go from being built into nearly aspect of American life and then within one election and a few months suddenly become almost completely irrelevant. 

In the long run, this is going to be one of the best things that has happened to minorities in America - they are no longer going to be feel ethnically obligated to support what they know to be unmeritocratic. 

And by the way, if a some workplaces still value diversity - terrific! It might work for them (although I doubt it will). But as a requirement at every level and every institution...this alone makes the Trump presidency a resounding success so far.