If Donald Trump is elected president in November, he will have access to the federal government's vast “woke” bureaucracy, a powerful regulatory force that imposes progressive politics on every aspect of American life, including the workplace. He is likely to take the ax to the authorities, the Post reported.
Multiple outside advisers to candidate Trump say how to return agencies like Lina Khan's Federal Trade Commission and Gary Gensler's Securities and Exchange Commission to their original mission of protecting consumers and investors. He said that plans have already been drawn up. , rather than driving progressive change to the $28 trillion U.S. economy.
As I point out in my book, Go Wake, Go Broke: The Inside Story of Corporate American Radicalization, Joe Biden is perhaps the most woke-obsessed president in history, and he has made it clear that the entire government's vast regulatory matrix injected progressive politics into the It was imposed on American companies.
This is a president who said: “To me, the values of diversity, equality, and inclusion are literally, no joke, America's core strengths. I'm proud to be in office, and it starts with the vice president.”
Cabinet appointments and Supreme Court nominations were made with an emphasis on left-wing virtue signaling about intersectionality rather than skills.
Regulators are pushing companies to do the same, which is why DEI, and often de facto quotas, have permeated much private sector employment.
Mr. Biden's woke SEC chairman has expanded the Commission's power by proposing useless rules that would force companies to figure out their carbon footprint and disclose how they make the world a greener place. Expanded. When was the last time you heard Warren Buffett say he bought stocks based on such metrics?
Let's all do DEI together
Now, courtesy of Republican Rep. Byron Donald of Florida, we're getting more insight into how pervasive the insane woke policies are in government, and how the Trump administration plans to dismantle the government. I was able to do it.
Mr. Donald recently sent a letter to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which is supposed to help the SEC fight financial fraud by regulating Wall Street at the forefront. FINRA is a self-regulatory organization. This means that although it is funded by banks and brokerage firms, it is SEC compliant.
The company's job is pretty egregious, considering the prevalence of various penny stock scams these days, where unscrupulous brokers tempt unsophisticated novice investors to throw their money in the trash.
One reason, Donald suggests, is that FINRA has spent a lot of time promoting wakefulness.
In addition to industry experts, its board included and currently includes “people from left-leaning academic institutions, think tanks, government pension funds, and international development agencies,” he wrote. There is.
DEI is such a big part of FINRA, Donalds found, that FINRA actually boasts that DEI is “essential to FINRA's operations.” No one is against diversity, of course, but FINRA apparently believes that bean-counting race and gender automatically helps catch the bad guys on Wall Street.
FINRA's research tool in the waking dream world is to use preferred pronouns. Donalds said FINRA will “take the time to recognize and respect each other's differences, including recognizing all gender diversity, particularly non-binary and transgender identities” in the next Wolf of the Year. We've found evidence that Wall Street believes will help prevent it.
Mr. Donald is asking FINRA to provide evidence on how all of the above serve its core mission. Republicans will look for hearings if they retain control of the House and provide a blueprint for change if Trump wins. A FINRA spokesperson declined to comment other than to say that the agency would respond to the member's letter.
Progressive party's violation
As this column first reported, Kamala Harris plans to avoid next month's Al Smith Dinner, a gala hosted by the Archdiocese of New York in support of Catholic Charities.
As I reported, Trump also confirmed his attendance.
The question is why Kamala would circumvent the decades-old tradition of presidential candidates of both parties attending what is essentially a celebrity gathering to support a cause.
Last I checked, her political party is the Democratic Party, which is based largely on support from Catholics, many of whom were working class like the great Al Smith, the governor of New York in the 1920s.
One obvious answer is that Harris is terrible at extemporaneous speaking. One more thing: This is AOC, not your father's Democrat. If the far left didn't control the agenda, Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, a key battleground state in the fall election, would be Harris' running mate instead of the goofball Tim Walz.
But Shapiro is Jewish and a supporter of Israel. Israel is a target of the pro-Hamas, progressive and increasingly powerful AOC wing.
The Catholic Church is pro-life, another progressive bugaboo, which fuels Harris' calculation.
But, as Cardinal Dolan pointed out, the last presidential candidate to boycott the event was Walter Mondale, “and remember, he lost 49 out of 50 states.” No wonder Trump is starting to do well in the polls.
