White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller vowed that President Donald Trump's administration will bring an end to DEI "strangulation."

When President Lyndon Johnson’s later-Vice President Hubert Humphrey championed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he exclaimed, "I will eat my hat if this leads to racial quotas." Following the meteoric rise of DEI over the past few years, Humphrey would need a new hat. 

Now, the DEI fad is rightly fading. The Supreme Court overturned affirmative action. Corporations jettisoned DEI upon realizing it improved neither workplace culture nor the bottom line. President Donald Trump eliminated DEI in government and is rooting out remaining discriminatory DEI practices in the private sector. 

But what’s truly remarkable isn’t DEI’s demise, but the extraordinary uniformity of its adoption — uniformity that, once dismantled, will allow for a plurality of policies for hiring, promoting and retaining the right workforce, tailored to each companies’ individual goals. 

TRUMP'S CRACKDOWN ON HARVARD, 'WOKE' COLLEGES WILL TAKE MORE THAN 100 DAYS TO LEAVE LASTING REFORM: PROFESSOR

Make no mistake, the DEI orthodoxy demanded faithful allegiance to a narrow set of rules. When 2,500 CEOs signed the identical "CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion" pledge, they committed their companies to identical practices like holding unconscious bias trainings and making "progress" on demographic metrics — regardless of how these policies might affect their specific businesses.  

Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are dead. The big issue is what comes next. (Adobe Stock)

LGBTQ organizations like the Human Rights Campaign established scoring systems that effectively required companies to offer employees identical transgender medical benefits packages to earn a coveted "100% rating" —........

© Fox News