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WITH RNC SHAKEUP, MAGA BRINGS
ACCOUNTABILITY TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
GAVIN WAX, A NEW YORK-BASED CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL ACTIVIST, COMMENTATOR,
COLUMNIST, OPERATIVE, AND STRATEGIST. March 23, 2024
An insidious institutional rot has long afflicted the Republican
Party and the broader conservative movement. Historically, this has presented a
vexing problem for grassroots activists desperate to change the status quo. Now,
after Herculean efforts by players big and small, it appears that the
rabble-rousing of the MAGA faithful is finally paying off.
New Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Whatley and Vice
Chairwoman Lara Trump have brought immediate change to the institution, working
with senior Trump campaign advisor Chris LaCivita to streamline this leviathan.
Whereas former RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney-McDaniel did not make the systemic
changes needed to support a modern campaign infrastructure, the new team has
wasted no time taking a hatchet to overpriced, underworked, and misaligned
elements of the organization.
“Every tool that the other side has used, we need to wield for ourselves,”
Whatley said in an internal staffing memo to the RNC. “We will strive
relentlessly towards historic accomplishments and fully modernizing the
organization between now and Election Day,” he noted, adding that the RNC’s goal
is to “cater to individual states, realizing that each state is different and
that we must evolve to more neighbor-to-neighbor, precinct-level organizing.”
Previously, grassroots groups like Turning Point Action worked in opposition to
the RNC, which cared more about providing lavish incentives for veteran
operatives than doing the tedious and unglamorous work of chasing ballots and
hunting down votes. Now, Whatley and Trump have demonstrated their commitment to
build a broad coalition of organizations working in concert to win elections.
The embrace of early voting and absentee ballots, where Democrats have routed
Republicans for years, may not be widespread among factions within Trump’s
hardcore America First base, but it is necessary. These unfortunate practices
have become the facts of life in battleground states like Pennsylvania and
Michigan, where Democrats are in control and the genie cannot be put back in the
bottle. The realpolitik of the situation dictates that Republicans must fight
and win on whatever battlefields that exist, rather than accepting losses while
harkening to election-integrity ideals that remain untenable in purple and blue
states.
The immediate axing of dozens of RNC staffers sets an example of the culture of
complacency that Whatley and Trump will not tolerate. Failed efforts at catering
to minority voters, which have not yielded any tangible results, will no longer
be subsidized by the RNC. Whereas the previous RNC leadership would have
hesitated to make this change for fear of being labeled by the biased media as
racist, the current leadership does not shy away from the necessary change. The
RNC will instead work alongside individuals who bring tangible value, such as
gay conservative Scott Presler, who does far more than collect a salary to check
a diversity box.
The America First movement has long demanded this transformation, and the
waiting game has been excruciating. It will be far from pretty as the America
First movement remakes the machinery of the Republican Party; it is a gargantuan
task that seemed impossible before the rise of President Donald J. Trump. The
sheer force of Trump’s personality showed the power of a truly exceptional
individual to overcome insurmountable odds in a victory for common sense and the
virtuous principles shared by the patriots whose spirits animate our nation.
(RELATED: GAVIN WAX: Republican Voters Won’t Settle For A Pale Imitation Of
Donald Trump)
As Trump rose to power, conservative institutions refused to change with the
times. They dug in their heels, hoping that things would eventually return to
how they were if they bided their time. They believed that Trump would fall flat
on his face and that his legacy would be a failed presidency. This is why they
looked the other way as the Deep State took unprecedented actions to undermine
Trump before he even won his election, figuring that Trump would not be able to
overcome their tricks and tactics.
However, the blatant hurdles Trump faced and surmounted only made him stronger
and his supporters more fervent. Trump is in a prime position to sweep back into
the presidency. For many decades, Conservative Inc. had a fleet of attorneys,
bureaucrats, academics, and media apparatchiks strategically placed to make the
Republican Party weak and unresponsive to the needs of its constituents.
Those days are rapidly coming to an end, and the baggage of the Republican Party
will be cast aside. With President Trump’s victory in November, the obsolescence
of the reviled Conservative Inc. apparatus will be apparent to all. Then, the
struggle to save our nation will kick into high gear.
When Trump said he would be our retribution, this is partly what he was
referencing. Trump’s right-wing realignment is the saving grace for activists
who have fought and endured many brutal battles but maintained their spirit and
refused to quit despite tremendous obstacles. As the hardships of the Founding
Fathers led to the forging of liberty, our hardships will result in the renewal
of national greatness. We are seeing the fruits begin to emerge right now.
Gavin Wax is a New York-based conservative political activist, commentator,
columnist, operative, and strategist. He also serves as 76th president of the
New York Young Republican Club and as an ambassador for both Turning Point USA &
Live Action. You can follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, at @GavinWax.
The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author
and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Reprinted with the permission of the Daily Caller News Foundation, an
independent and nonpartisan newswire service.
https://dailycaller.com/
THE NEW RACISM IS POISONING
AMERICA
By Janet Levy, March 27, 2024
The idea that past
racism can be undone with more racism is ludicrous. Affirmative action,
established in the 1960s, emphasized equality of opportunity. But it has
transmogrified — through the politics of DEI, sexual orientation, and gender
identity — into a new form of racism emphasizing equality of outcome.
Unconstitutional quotas deny college admissions and government jobs to whites
and non-black, non-Latino, non-Native groups. The worst is the recent invasion
of healthcare by DEI-driven policies. Belonging to a DEI-privileged group
outweighs need. White patients may have to wait longer than blacks or Hispanics
for cardiac care or kidney transplants. All in the name of “health equity” and
righting past wrongs done to those groups.
This column will look at four recent lawsuits — among the many — that have been
brought against such policies. It will also show how, over the last few years, a
retribution-focused movement to embed racial preferences in medical treatment
has gained traction in the healthcare industry.
The first case is from Montana, where in 1991, the 52nd legislature enacted and
codified House Bill 424 (originally House Joint Resolution 28) as Montana §
2-15-108, MCA. The law aimed to “take positive action to attain gender balance
and proportional representation of minorities” in state boards, commissions,
committees, and councils. The alleged cause of the imbalance was “bias.”
In September 2023, two vacancies opened for the 12-member Board of Medical
Examiners, but the governor has been unable to make appointments since the
appointments must adhere to DEI. Do No Harm, an organization representing
physicians and healthcare workers countering DEI in medicine, has filed a suit
in U.S. District Court for the District of Montana (Helena Division), saying
Montana § 2-15-108 violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution.
The DNH lawsuit says one of its members (identified as Member A) has 31 years’
practice as a dermatologist, is qualified for the post, and is willing to serve
— but gender and race mandates stand in the way of her appointment. The Pacific
Legal Foundation (PLF) is representing DNH pro bono.
The PLF has also filed a similar case on behalf of DNH in Louisiana. Here, the
lawsuit challenges the state’s La. Statute § 37: 1263 (B) as violative of the
equal protection clause. The statute governs appointments to the state’s
10-member medical board. Of its eight subsections, four say “every other member
appointed” under those provisions shall belong to a minority and nothing therein
precludes consecutive appointments of minority members.
DNH says it has members qualified and willing to serve as physician and consumer
members of the board, but the statute prevents their appointment. Louisiana has
similar quotas for other boards and commissions, such as those for barbers,
optometry examiners, embalmers, and funeral directors.
The third case, filed on March 12 this year, is a federal lawsuit against the
City of San Diego. The city’s housing commission has a loan program to assist
first-time home buyers who are black, indigenous, or people of color (BIPOC). It
offers $40,000 for down payment and closing costs. The Californians for Equal
Rights Foundation, represented by PLF, has challenged the program as
unconstitutional. For the Constitution bars discrimination based on race or
color — no matter what race or color.
The fourth lawsuit, in which a battle was won, was from Arkansas. It related to
appointment to the state’s Social Work Licensing Board. In June 2022, Stephen
Haile, a devoted foster care parent with over 300 home placements and extensive
experience in child custody issues, sought appointment to the board as a
representative of the elderly. Haile was excluded from consideration as he is
white and the board is required to have at least two black members.
Represented by PLF, he challenged Arkansas’s quota law in January 2023. But by
March that year, the state legislature abolished the law, and Governor Sarah
Huckabee Sanders signed legislation to favor board appointments based solely on
individual qualifications. Haile then withdrew his lawsuit.
Such quota systems are rampant now. Researchers for the PLF found that at least
25 states have gender or race quotas for public board membership. Fifteen states
have race- or sex-conscious eligibility mandates for nearly every public board.
Public Service Denied, a PLF report, details how widespread these discriminatory
practices are. It lists sixty-three race- and sex-conscious mandates.
Meanwhile, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), buttressed by
the federal Executive Order 13985 of 2021, is working to infect healthcare with
DEI ideologies. Training “leaders of color,” increasing BIPOC participation in
the healthcare workforce, mandating diversity training in medical settings —
these are the priorities on which it focuses.
In parallel, the Association of American Medical Colleges has required member
colleges to implement DEI standards. A move is also afoot to inject race
politics into the Hippocratic Oath by rewording or replacing it. The American
Medical Association, too, has adopted an “anti-racism” orientation.
The ostensible aim of such initiatives is to eliminate disparities in quality
of, and access to, healthcare. The trouble, though, is that requiring doctors
and other medical professionals to take time off from clinical responsibilities
to prioritize racial impact makes no sense. Also, alleged systemic racism has
nothing to do with illness, for which metabolic and behavioral risk factors
carry more weight.
This movement, away from unbiased, need-based care to downright favoring of
certain races, is unethical. Sometimes, it is taken to foolish extremes:
WhiteCoats4BlackLives (WC4BL), for example, said that “policing is incompatible
with health” and persuaded hundreds of state and local governments to declare
racism a public health issue. But sadly, the effects of DEI ideology are in
evidence in many areas of public health and healthcare.
It was seen, most egregiously perhaps, during the COVID pandemic, when 1,200
medical professionals signed an open letter saying they “do not condemn” riots
organized by Black Lives Matter as risky, prioritizing “opposition to racism as
vital to public health.” When vaccines became available, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) said black senior citizens were the highest risk
group and concluded that race should be prioritized over age!
The Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, has a program that gives preference to
black and Latino patients with heart failure, ostensibly to make up for past
less attentive care. However, the program is based on a flawed 2019 study
(itself based on others) that claimed to demonstrate “the presence of structural
racism in admission service for heart failure patients.”
A similar policy prioritizing DEI-privileged groups has delayed the treatment of
more than 10 million non-black nephrology patients, some of whom require kidney
transplants. A new qualifications system adopted by the United Network for Organ
Sharing (UNOS), a non-profit managing organ transplants in the U.S., prioritizes
black patients for treatment.
Whether it is appointments to boards, medical care, college admissions, jobs or
other benefits, unfair considerations of race now predominate. Policies
discriminating against whites and other groups — Asians, for example — are
falsely hailed as reparative for targeted minorities.
The process began in the 1960s, with the slow abandonment of the constitutional
ideal forbidding any form of racial distinction. Then, DEI and social justice,
and later, sexual orientation (in 1998) and gender identity (in 2014), became
pervasive. This new racism violates the basic tenets of our constitutional
republic. It should not be allowed to stand.
Reprinted with permission from the American Thinker: https://www.americanthinker.com
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