“How committed is the Trump administration to the meritocracy, really? No one should look at Pete Hegseth or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or Tulsi Gabbard or Kash Patel and think that Trump has scoured America to find the best and brightest to lead his new administration.
The contrast between Hegseth and Joe Biden’s outgoing defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, is profound. Austin, who is Black, served as a battalion commander, a brigade commander, a division commander and Centcom commander before he was selected to lead the Pentagon.
Of course, those qualifications are no guarantee that a person would be an effective secretary of defense, but Austin is vastly more qualified than Hegseth, who was barely confirmed after three Republican senators voted against his nomination. No one should denigrate Hegseth’s service. He served his country honorably in combat operations overseas. But so have hundreds of thousands of other Americans.
If we’re applying the colorblind analysis that Trump allegedly demands, he just downgraded our secretary of defense. He’s promoted an unqualified man to one of the most powerful and important jobs in the United States.
Trump’s cure for D.E.I. isn’t a true meritocracy, but rather affirmative action for the MAGA movement. Providing preferences for populists might be a natural consequence of Trump’s political victory, but it is not an improvement on the status quo.“
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/opinion/trump-dei-hegseth.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
And pretty obvious that his white cabinet posts are not based upon merit.
Replies to: "And pretty obvious that his white cabinet posts are not based upon merit."
- Donald Trump, DEI program starter and once again liar. [NT]
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- Frank L - 9:18pm 1/30/25
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- +5 Trumpie points. [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 9:33pm 1/30/25
- And pretty obvious that his white cabinet posts are not based upon merit. [LINK]
- conorlarkin - 9:24pm 1/30/25
- Kash Patel is white? +3 Trumpie points [NT]
- BaronVonZemo - 9:32pm 1/30/25
- Kash Patel is not nominated for a cabinet post. - conorlarkin - 9:38pm 1/30/25
- You literally listed Kash Patel in your post. - BaronVonZemo - 9:49pm 1/30/25
- Kash Patel is not nominated for a cabinet post. - conorlarkin - 9:38pm 1/30/25
- Are you kidding? He is DEI for fools, cultists, conspiracy freaks, insurectionists, weirdos, - Frank L - 9:28pm 1/30/25
- Kash Patel is white? +3 Trumpie points [NT]
- BaronVonZemo - 9:32pm 1/30/25