Friends of equality who spent years fighting a rising tide of faddish discrimination have had a heady few weeks since Donald Trump’s return to office. One executive order after another (by my count, we’re up to nine) takes a hammer to the edifice of so-called diversity, so-called equity, and an extraordinarily exclusionary kind of “inclusion.” Lawyers checking out each order as they drop might as well be music fans listening to Michael Jackson’s Bad album for the first time — top hit after top hit just keeps coming. Some joke that they’ve grown “tired of winning.” The only proper response is Han Solo’s: “Great, kid! Don’t get cocky.” The real work has just begun.
Through the EOs, the president ordered agencies to begin a long set of actions to change federal policy. The agencies haven’t taken them yet. The list is a great list, but follow-through will be everything. Think of it this way: You may have found the world’s greatest cheesecake recipe, but you can’t eat the recipe. You actually need to bake the cake. We haven’t yet started baking.
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