I think you've overestimated how easy it is for the left to ditch DEI.
For a lot of people, these are sacred values - as just one example, we can see in the UK that even as local authorities have faced major real-terms budget cuts over the last 15 years they have kept and often expanded their DEI activities. Trans rights, 'anti-racism', are what it means to be a good person.
What's more, even if the main politicians running for office ditched it (as Harris seemed to try to, to some extent) the ideologies are deeply embedded in schools, public services, charities and academia - meaning that the public will still encounter it and hold politicians accountable for it, unless they are actively repudiating it and rooting it out.
I think you've overestimated how easy it is for the left to ditch DEI.
For a lot of people, these are sacred values - as just one example, we can see in the UK that even as local authorities have faced major real-terms budget cuts over the last 15 years they have kept and often expanded their DEI activities. Trans rights, 'anti-racism', are what it means to be a good person.
What's more, even if the main politicians running for office ditched it (as Harris seemed to try to, to some extent) the ideologies are deeply embedded in schools, public services, charities and academia - meaning that the public will still encounter it and hold politicians accountable for it, unless they are actively repudiating it and rooting it out.