After spending most of my last thirty years in government service and a significant amount of time since my retirement in 2012, pushing to get the federal government, and in particular my former agency the US Department of State, to do more on diversity, equity, and inclusiveness, or DEI, to ensure that every American has an equal shot at serving his or her country at all levels of government, and seeing some progress made, I am now aghast, in a state of shock, at what’s happening in my country.
