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Trump’s Anti–DEI Policy and Private Sector Dictatorship

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Whoever on ethical grounds wants to maintain war permanently for its own sake as a feature of relations among peoples must clearly realize that this can happen only at the cost of the general welfare, since the economic development of the world would have to be turned back at least to the state of the year 1830 to realize this martial ideal even only to some extent.

– Ludwig von Mises
Nation, State, and Economy [1919]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
February 18, 2025
Trump’s Anti–DEI Policy and Private Sector Dictatorship
President Trump has upended the liberal/progressive policy of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by decreeing its immediate end within the federal government. Is that a good thing? Conservatives sure think so. My position? I don’t really care how presidents run their welfare-state, warfare-state departments and agencies. I’m with Murray Rothbard when he was asked about the importance of ferreting out communists in the federal government. …
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