Good Riddance, DEI. See you never!

It seems to me that this draft is meant as a prologue. It explains why the next draft needs to exist.

Racially retrogressive policy-making by the US federal government will indeed summon the efforts of another generation of Americans for whom multiracial democracy must be fought for an won if it is to be handed on to their descendents. But we won't get it by reminiscing about why we thought we had it for a while. Seeing how easily parts of the economic and political infrastructure of our society turned away from their post-2020 positions, how easily the "anti-woke" agitation drove them altogether off the field will prompt not only re-immersion in the history of the civil rights movement, consideration of how to build new coalitions that will last, but also reconsideration of our recent adventures in social thought. We must wonder whether we were too quick to anticipate that the universalism of equality could be replaced by the particularisms of multiple "equities," in which we blunted the broad advance of everyone together and were thereby divided from one another and conquered by the same old tactics used so many times before.