BACKGROUND
1) Camilla Tominey, “Let’s celebrate: Donald Trump is vaccinating the West against the woke mind virus
Whether it’s gender ideology or border control; The president has torn through years of bizarre, divisive groupthink in a matter of weeks,”:The Telegraph, February 7, 2025 (6:10 pm GMT);
How do we judge actions by Donald Trump which are aimed at goals we share, at least in part?
How dowe judge the actions of a dictator ang goals accomplished by dictatorial means, even if we share the goals of the actions in whole or in part?
Unless we’ve lost our moral compass, unless we’ve lost our bearings, we don’t celebrate the dictatorial actions of a tyrant, or goals achieved by dictatorial means.
Camilla Townley, in tue article cited above, falls into the unpardonable trap of praising the acts of a dictator, or would-be dictator.
That weakens the case against the dictator, opening the door to justifications for supporting a tyrannical regime. E.g.,”But…he has done good things…”
Like Adolf Hitler, who built the Autobahn in Germany.
One must always judge the achievement of goals by the means employed to secure them.
With Tominey, and many others, we need to go back to democratic basics, and remind tgem and everyone else of the core tenets of democracy and the rule of law.
Summarily dismissing DEI employees without due process of law is no way to proceed, however much we may disagree with DEI policies.