DEI: We Need a New Word for ‘Over’

DEI may live in the imagination of academics, activists, and errant bishops who don’t mind being turned into tomorrow’s memes, but for the rest of us, it is decidedly deceased.

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President Trump is among those on hand as Reverend Mariann Budde arrives at the national prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral, January 21, 2025. AP/Evan Vucci

If President Trump’s Executive Order ending Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs across the federal government was the DEI ideology’s death certificate, its registered time of death may have been five minutes after Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde stopped talking at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday morning. 

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