RIP DEI? The war on 'woke' America has a new commander-in-chief

Trump is staffing his government with loyalists who want to de-“woke” America .

In his first term, Trump used executive power to bar the federal government and government contractors from conducting racially “divisive” and “ un-American ” diversity training.

With multiple levers he can pull, Trump could make sweeping changes.

A Pew Research Center survey found American workers’ opinions on the role of DEI in the workplace have become more negative since last year .

“A lot of people are exhausted by the idea of corporations being involved in partisan agendas. They just want to go into big-box stores and buy a product or a good and they don’t want to be preached at,” a conservative group fighting “woke capitalism” says Daniel Cameron .

David Glasgow , executive director of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion , and Belonging at the NYU School of Law , said he hopes to see organizations do more than that over the next four years .

Glasgow: “This work is going to continue. It may need a rebranding. It’s possible people might need to be careful about how they talk about it.