For the gay mayor of Indiana’s fourth-most populous city, Pete Buttigieg’s nomination to head the Department of Transportation under the Biden administration was widely seen as evidence that the White House prioritized diversity over qualifications.
Considering the numerous transportation-related disasters that followed, it’s understandable that a lot of Americans are fed up with the left’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” mantra — including, it seems, Buttigieg himself.
During a recent appearance at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, he offered a somewhat dim view of his own party’s unofficial platform on the topic:
🚨 Pete Buttigieg ABANDONS DEI?! 🚨
"If there's one thing I really respect about principled conservatives…. Is that they have a horror of anything that has a whiff of being pressed into conformity."
The tide is turning. pic.twitter.com/plP91f3VKB
— DC Shorts (@theDCshorts) February 20, 2025
Coming from someone who spent so long inside the Biden administration, Buttigieg’s remarks are notably reasonable and theoretically should resonate with Americans across the ideological spectrum.
That wasn’t the case for “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin, though.
As Breitbart reported, she took aim his supposedly “tone-deaf” belief that people are more than their gender or skin color.
HOSTIN: All of it. I thought all of it was tone deaf because what happens is from 1776 to 1965, you have basically white men in charge of everything, right? Women, people of color, we’re left out of just equality, equality of opportunity, that sort of thing. And I think when that equality stops popping up in terms of diversity programs, equality now feels like oppression to those people who were at the top of the ladder, not necessarily because of their merit but because of their identity, right? And so in my view, when you look at the stats, it is really clear from McKinsey, a consulting firm that Pete used to work for — that firm found that companies with more diversity financially and socially outperform those that are less diverse so the business case for diversity, equity, and inclusion, it makes sense, and I think we can all agree that we want our workforce to reflect to reflect what our world looks like.
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Meanwhile, President Donald Trump’s all-out war on woke DEI policies within the federal government has been met with resounding praise by countless Americans:
BREAKING NOW 🚨 Donald Trump just declared that DEI is DE*AD. LET’S FREAKING GO 🔥
Mainstream Media will be NEXT pic.twitter.com/F9xgh6tUSK
— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) January 31, 2025
How do I sleep 😴 at night knowing President Trump @realDonaldTrump , Elon Musk @elonmusk and DOGE @DOGE cutting government workers, DEI and other liberal pet projects #DOGE #ElonMusk #PresidenTrump pic.twitter.com/nbh3SEmn50
— Jamal (@BlackSouthener) February 20, 2025
And just like that, JD crushed the DEI Bullshit in Europe too 😎
This guy is gonna be GREAT for America 👊🏻 pic.twitter.com/owYu4hY5no
— Todd With Trump (@THeinrich22) February 14, 2025
Fox News provided additional coverage of Buttigieg’s recent remarks:
Buttigieg explained that the DNC event “was a caricature of everything” wrong with the Democratic Party’s “ability both to cohere as a party and to reach to those who don’t always agree” with them.
“If that comes to your workplace with the best of intentions but doesn’t actually get at what we’re doing, what actually matters here, what’s actually at stake,” Buttigieg said.
“I think — and this might sound counterintuitive — if we were more serious about the actual values and not caught up in vocabularies and trying to cater to everybody only in terms of their particular slice of combinations of identities versus the shared project.”
“It’s a problem, especially for men and White men,” Bibb said. “Both educated and non-educated college degree White men.”
Democrats have been reflecting on their election defeat since November. Many have pointed to the party’s inability to reach young men and working-class voters. Some Democrats highlighted the over-emphasis of attacking Trump as opposed to developing a viable economic plan.
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Here’s a relevant clip from “The View”:
HAVE DEMOCRATS TAKEN DEI PROGRAMS TOO FAR? As Trump continues to pull initiatives that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, #TheView co-hosts react to former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg questioning the Democrats' diversity approach. pic.twitter.com/W0jnTfgtOp
— The View (@TheView) February 21, 2025
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