Shortly after the big blue wave crashed into the country, turning much that was red into blue, a video popped up. California Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna posted a video on X, saying DEI was back, and went on to describe how America had just gone all in on diversity and inclusion, naming everyone who had just been elected, including the first gay senator.
DEI is back! https://t.co/ISsdTCwtzq
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) November 4, 2026
He's wrong. The first openly gay senator was Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, but that's not the only thing Khanna was wrong about.
He's wrong in thinking that America wants more woke cultural infusions and intrusions. Electing people of different backgrounds was never something America considered to be a DEI move. The Democrats just convinced themselves that America is racist and only wants white men.
Real bigotry makes you stupid, but I digress.
Despite the blue wave, polling continues to show that Americans weren't signing up for more diversity and inclusion, LGBTQ+ inclusion, or anti-American sentiment. I'd argue that voting that way, even in ignorance, is as good as opening the door wide open for it, but it's hard to tell apolitical normies that's a real problem. Regardless, Americans don't want a return to the Biden-era cultural intrusions we were forced to endure in almost every facet of life.
Even in deep-blue areas, this is the case. As my colleague Rusty Weiss reported, Washington citizens voted not to allow boys and men into women's locker rooms, yet the Democrats decided that the "no kings" rule doesn't apply to them, and they went ahead and chose lawfare to force their ideas anyway:
Instead, the Seattle School Board voted unanimously on Nov. 9 to hire lawyers and challenge the law. Board Director Joe Mizrahi said, "These laws reflect values our communities have fought for and overwhelmingly support," adding that "we don't see a way to implement Initiative 638 without violating those vital protections."
Mizrahi has it backward. The voters just proved they "overwhelmingly support" the effort to protect girls. And he's trying to undo it by falsely claiming the community is on his side while stripping away protections for the group that actually needs them (the girls).
A day later, socialist Mayor Katie Wilson rushed to sign on.
Bold strategy, Cotton.
If you look around at America right now, you'll see that there's not a lot of market for wokeness. Even in Hollywood, people who pushed that woke infusion into the culture are being pushed out and rejected. One of the biggest examples of that happened just this week with the ousting of James Gunn as the head of the DCU, and his replacement with a veteran Marvel producer who is an open Christian.
I'd like to add that one of the chief reasons the pendulum swung so hard in 2024 was the fact that people were just so sick and overwhelmed with leftist culture that they couldn't stomach it any longer. There were so many fatigues that popped up during that time that even major corporations — as slow-moving as they are — were dropping these initiatives and burying them like they were radioactive.
One could question whether or not that had something to do with there no longer being any government money in it, and they'd be partially correct, but the real truth was that no one was buying the woke they were selling.
And if they aren't buying it in the market, they won't be buying it at the ballot box. The Democrats can't get out of their own way to understand that what they just experienced was a (dubious) win that had more to do with anti-Republican sentiment than pro-Democrat positions. They make a grave error by assuming that because they were elected, we want drag queens stripping in front of children and anti-white quotas in the workplace.
If they carry on like this, and I'm sure they will, I can't imagine that blue tsunami is going to hit the same in 2028.
