There’s a lot here. Behind the blissfully welcome dullness of his rhetoric, POTUS’s orders have started something radical. https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1352698569296408581

He’s swapped equity in for equality. Close enough? No. “Equity means giving the the named identity groups a specific advantage in treatment ... over other groups — in order to make up for historic injustice and ‘systemic’ oppression.”

“The paradox, of course, is that to achieve ‘equity’ you have to first take away equality for individuals who were born in the wrong identity group. Equity means treating individuals unequally so that groups are equal.”

But the “federal government cannot actively discriminate on the basis of race, sex or group identity under the Constitution. It cannot strip women of their rights as a distinct biological class. It cannot void religious freedom for individuals.”

If he persists in “enforc[ing] equity” through the promised “‘whole-of-government’ approach[, then] America is no longer about individual freedom; it’s about identity group power, and its constant management by government.”

It doesn’t have to go this way. I hope it doesn’t. But if POTUS continues to walk away from our consensus on the justice of equality? “[L]et the lawsuits commence” in defense of what “most Americans take as common sense.” We’ll be right there, filing them.