How Anti-Majoritarianism Became the Global Language of Legitimacy
... in his 1945 masterpiece On Power, Bertrand de Jouvenel imagined it [power] as an organism... It expands not through violence but through promises...
Power does not grow randomly: it grows toward legitimacy, toward righteousness, toward whatever moral vocabulary the age supplies. In medieval France, that vocabulary was justice. In the 20th century, it was security... Today’s most potent political ideal is anti-majoritarianism...
It is the belief that the majority (its customs, preferences, cultural norms, and electoral power) poses a potential threat to minorities...
There is always another group to uplift, another imbalance to correct, another form of exclusion to repair... the work is never complete...
Before 1972, the Democratic Party was a fractious collection of urban labor, Southern whites, Catholics, Jews, intellectuals, and Midwestern union families. It was the coalition of the New Deal: a broad alliance held together by economic populism and the shared hardship of the Great Depression and war rationing...
Into that delicate realignment stepped a new [McGovern] Democratic coalition: minorities, feminists, college-educated professionals, young activists, public-sector unions, academics, journalists, and the new class of managerial workers who saw expertise as the proper basis for governance...
Their worldview centered on the uplift of minorities as the central moral mission of modern governance...
Minority protection is infinite, because there is always another group, another claim, or another micro-injustice that needs rectified. This worldview is the perfect environment for power to grow...
DEI is useful for managing, rewarding, and expanding the client blocs of the McGovern Coalition... DEI is the bureaucratic interface for anti-majoritarianism...
DEI will never go away because it is not a program. It is a constituency... It serves the moral needs of the anti-majoritarian worldview and the political needs of the Democratic coalition...
Spoils and patronage have always existed, but DEI is the lens through which every political problem is now viewed...
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