The tragic midair collision of an American Airlines plane and a military helicopter last week in Washington DC has sadly brought DEI hiring practices to the forefront of American politics. It’s one thing, after all, for leftists to practice their dumb, counterproductive, unfair ‘social justice’ policies in the halls of academia or their woke corporations, but it’s quite another to do it when actual lives are at stake, and they’ve been doing it for years. So when dozens are snuffed out in an instant and there’s even the slightest chance DEI could have been a fraction of the culprit for what was obviously a huge series of massive mistakes, it shouldn’t be surprising when people start asking questions.

Predictably, those questions, especially when posed by President Donald Trump, have been met by the left with a degree of incredulity and ‘righteous’ indignation that is stunning, even for them. “How dare you!” they shrieked, channeling their inner Greta Thunberg, as if it’s somehow sacrosanct to question their religion of ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ in a time like this. To paraphrase Shakespeare, methinks they doth protest too much.

Describing what should be the hiring process for a position as critical as air traffic controller, Trump told reporters: “We want the brightest, the smartest, the sharpest. We want somebody that’s psychologically superior. And that’s what we’re going to have.” Unless you’re a raving leftist lunatic, it’s hard to disagree with that.

Ever true to form, in their quest to tarnish Trump they completely mischaracterized what he said. Despite a few social media influencers on our side of things prematurely and unfairly jumping to conclusions regarding specific people (yeah, we really should stop doing that), the president made no........

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