The Left is freaking out over the shuddering of federal DEI programs and officers, per the latest executive order issued by President Donald J. Trump. A significant group that’s mum on the subject are congressional Democrats. All DEI staffers in the federal government were placed on paid leave this week. The media melted down. The activist wing of the liberal base is besides themselves, but Democrats on the Hill writ large aren’t flipping out. Sure, they’re preoccupied trying to deliver a body blow to the Trump White House by derailing the nomination of Pete Hegseth to be our next secretary of defense, but journalists Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag have another theory: they’re keeping their mouths shut because they know DEI initiatives are trash. 

Of all the actions Trump has made, this one is notably muted. It’s almost like a shoulder shrug. Part of that could be fatigue, as the Left has raged against the president for years and with little success. It took an unprecedented pandemic, which liberals weaponized for political gain, to ‘win’ the 2020 election. Gutentag and Shellenberger noted that it’s also notable since DEI stuff permeated the cultural scene, with the federal government, Hollywood, and other cultural bastions injecting it into their veins. It’s now being gutted at the federal level, and no one is taking to the streets. Again, they know it’s wrong, just like how liberals know Elon Musk didn’t hurl a Nazi salute at the inaugural rally on Monday (via Public).