Rufo reports that the second Trump administration is coordinated and confident, focused on abolishing DEI, ending disparate‑impact enforcement, and defunding university‑NGO networks. Once‑radical right ideas (from Deneen, Yarvin, Caldwell) are being discussed at Heritage and reflected in agency action, suggesting a consolidated governing program.
— If culture‑war rhetoric has become an operating blueprint for the federal bureaucracy, U.S. policy, law, and elite pipelines will be reshaped for years.
Christopher F. Rufo
2025.09.10
78% relevant
Rufo claims dissident‑era proposals (abolishing DEI bureaucracy, rescinding LBJ’s affirmative action order, dismantling the Department of Education) have been turned into administration policy, echoing the existing idea that once‑fringe right reforms are now being implemented across agencies.
Sohrab Ahmari
2025.08.29
60% relevant
Khan argues Trump’s second‑term 'anti‑woke' posture coincides with reverting to merger approvals and lobbyist‑steered antitrust settlements (e.g., DOJ’s HPE–Juniper deal), showing culture‑war rhetoric translating into concrete policy that advantages big business.
by Peter Elkind, ProPublica, and Katherine Mangan, The Chronicle of Higher Education
2025.08.27
75% relevant
By portraying the task force’s mission as stripping 'wokeness' in hiring, admissions, and research through federal enforcement and media warfare, the piece documents the operationalization of a broader anti‑DEI governing program.
Christopher F. Rufo
2025.08.14
100% relevant
Meetings in D.C. with agency leaders; Heritage event featuring Deneen, Yarvin, and Caldwell; claims that the administration has repealed LBJ’s affirmative‑action executive order and eliminated disparate‑impact provisions.
Christopher F. Rufo
2025.07.30
90% relevant
The article reports a concrete federal settlement forcing Columbia to abolish DEI, pay a $200M fine, and accept external monitoring—evidence that right‑wing culture‑war priorities have become operative federal policy and a template for broader rollout.
Thomas des Garets Geddes
2025.07.29
70% relevant
The piece centers on 'Trump’s attack on Harvard' and presents Chinese commentators endorsing it as corrective, aligning with the claim that once‑fringe anti‑DEI ideas are now guiding federal action in higher ed.
Christopher F. Rufo
2025.07.28
85% relevant
Rufo describes Trump’s EO directing agencies to buy only 'truth‑seeking' and 'ideologically neutral' AI and to exclude models embedding CRT/transgenderism frameworks, extending the administration’s anti‑DEI program into AI procurement with David Sacks as the named 'AI czar.'
Christopher F. Rufo
2025.07.21
80% relevant
Rufo convenes signatories and explicitly calls on President Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon to enact 'generational reforms' in higher ed, positioning a consolidated anti‑DEI, depoliticization program as governing policy rather than rhetoric.
N.S. Lyons
2025.02.13
72% relevant
Lyons frames Trump 2.0’s 'blitzkrieg' against the managerial state—border closures, tariffs, dismantling USAID, 'you can just do things' energy—as the concrete implementation of a consolidated right‑populist program to wield state power and reverse DEI/NGO‑aligned governance.
N.S. Lyons
2024.12.12
68% relevant
Lyons frames the incoming administration as unusually prepared to confront the bureaucracy and DEI infrastructure, citing Project 2025 and a coordinated personnel strategy to execute a counter‑revolution against the 'managerial hydra,' aligning with the thesis that once‑fringe anti‑woke plans are now operational policy.