President-elect Trump didn’t just normalize White grievance; he weaponized it. Now, Walmart and other corporate giants are obediently rolling back their DEI policies, bowing to the dear leader-elect even before he gives his first, most essential loyalty test.
Sixty percent of Americans support DEI, but these companies are caving to conservative tantrums led by MAGA trolls on eX-Twitter. They’re betraying Timothy Snyder’s first rule On Tyranny: don’t obey in advance.
For nearly 250 years, WEI (white, entitled, and intolerant) policies ordered every facet of American life, from schools to workplaces. MAGA’s endgame is clear: Make America White Again (MAWA). And major universities and corporations are handing these resurgent White supremacists the blueprint.
Still, the wonder is that so many Americans are hailing “liberation” from political correctness, wokeness, and DEI as a license to vent unbridled hatred towards their fellow citizens. They’re so caught up in MAGA madness that they haven’t stopped to consider what happens when their fellow Americans begin responding in kind. With all due respect to Prof. Snyder, this is as much a recipe for civil war as it is for tyranny.