As I watched the election returns on November 3, I was struck by the huge number of people elected who were not grey-haired white male conservatives.
I didn’t keep a tally, but I do remember the following:
Four transgender women elected to the House.
Five Blacks elected as governors.
One Native American woman elected as governor.
An openly gay man elected to the Senate.
A Muslim elected to the Senate.
A huge number of women elected to all sorts of state and federal offices.
And I am sure that the foregoing list is not all-inclusive.
It seems to me that the Blue Tsunami repudiated something which nobody seems to have noticed. It has repudiated the Administration’s war on D.E.I. And in so doing, it did not rely on government-mandated quotas. It was a voluntary endorsement of behavioral D.E.I. And this grey-haired white male conservative thinks that it is the very best kind of D.E.I.
