Fox News’ Will Cain says “I truly believe that DEI could have killed America”
Cain: “It could end America”
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From the January 22, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Will Cain Show
WILL CAIN (HOST): I do not think you can overstate the importance of Donald Trump killing DEI. Because I truly believe that DEI could have killed America. My big three takeaways, number one, President Trump caged the end of DEI in language calling back to civil rights. From America's founding, and then growing through the Civil-Rights Era, we've had a focus on the individual. We have wanted to see each other through character and ability and not through our superficial characteristics. So it's inspiring to hear President Trump write, "Illegal DEI and DEIA Policies not only violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws, they also undermine our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system."
That brings me to number two, DEI is a cancer. It's a cancer that destroys merit and incentive and it pits the American people against one another. We are a one people, we are not people broken up into different tribes. And if we institute a policy that forces us into our tribes based upon our skin color or whatever the current fashion of ideology may be, it could end America. This kind of language is the type of thing that is a cancer.
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She gets it wrong about Donald Trump, but at least she stumbles upon eventually the nature of DEI, the unearned. Finally, it's not a talking point, it's not simply a culture war flag, it is historical fact that DEI is rooted in Marxism. The Soviet Union from its inception pitted its own people against one another on the basis of class, and then it embarked on a decades long project to spread that across the world, dividing the people on any possible line. Luckily that has failed. "The Wall Street Journal" wrote, "Like everything based on the writings of Karl Marx, seeing oppressors and colonial struggles everywhere, DEI was doomed to fail." Thankfully, DEI appears to have failed, because it would have failed America.