A just future is a color-blind future. The evil of racism is that it pits ethnic groups against each other. A society with diverse racial groups cannot cohesively exist in unity if these ethnic differences are elevated as primary identity delimiters that are to be held above all else. A truly unified and just society would view racial differences as insignificantly as it views differences in eye color. It recognizes that people look different, but they are still people like everyone else.

This is why the leftist woke “diversity, equity, and inclusion” movement is, in fact, unjust. Rather than seeking to unite people under their common humanity, this ideology divides people based on their racial differences and then applies broad sweeping prejudices upon these racial groups using the Marxist ethic of oppressor vs. oppressed.

DEI is little more than Marxism wrapped in race.

Donald Trump has recognized this DEI blight upon the Land of the Free and has correctly labeled DEI programs as “illegal” within the federal government. In just his first week, he has taken a figurative chainsaw to the bureaucratic pillars upholding DEI within the federal government.

The purging of federal DEI personnel and programs began with a memo from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which ordered all executive agency heads to put all federal employees at DEIA offices on paid leave, as these offices are to be shuttered immediately. Cognizant of leftists’ tendency to rebrand rather than move on, the memo also asked federal employees “if they know of any efforts to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language.”

Of significance was his ending of the 1965 Executive Order 11246, which established affirmative action within the federal government. Now, federal hiring considerations are no longer hindered by complying with race- and sex-based quotas. Meritocracy will once again rule the day.

However, eliminating DEI programs within the federal government is just the tip of the iceberg, as Trump also has an eye on eliminating DEI across the private sector. “Encourage the Private Sector to End Illegal DEI Discrimination and Preferences” is an executive order that will require businesses and companies seeking contracts with the federal government to dump any DEI requirements within their own companies. It’s a complete reversal in federal contracting practice, ending Clinton- and Obama-era executive orders that progressively pushed more affirmative action-based regulations.

At the root of all the acrimony and division within the U.S. and between the two political parties is Marxism versus meritocracy. The radical Left, which has almost completely taken over the Democrat Party, has effectively embraced a Marxist worldview. Democrats see the job of government as ensuring “equitable” outcomes based on everything from race to sex to class to finances.

For the last half-century or more, leftists have spread their Marxist worldview via higher education, news media, the entertainment industry, and the federal government. It’s been on a long, slow march through the nation’s institutions, but under the guise of “social justice,” the Left has seen massive success.

However, as the growth of the Marxist worldview spread, the reality of what it is and what it produces has become much clearer to the American public. Woke ideology that pushes DEI has become a bridge too far, as it has served to unmask the Marxist totalitarianism that’s behind the Left’s ideological societal goals.

DEI is inherently antithetical to the principles of individual liberty upon which our nation was founded. Trump’s actions against DEI are not, as the Leftmedia falsely frames them, an attack against diversity. Rather, they’re an attack against racism and Marxism and the prejudice inherent therein, which disparages individual liberty, personal productivity, and meritocracy as immoral.

America became a great nation because our Founding Fathers embraced the ideals of individual liberty, unlocking the greatest resource that exists on the planet. Thankfully, Trump is seeking to once again unburden Americans from the Marxist ideology that threatens to break our nation.