Stop funding the woke and the stupid

The identity politics form of left-wing politics is a virus that spreads itself, funding activists and ideology from whatever city or university department it infects.

Red state legislators and governors: the electorate is on our side. The law and courts are on our side. Administrators tied to woke institutions want you to be soft, but your duty to our civilization is calling. Joe Lonsdale is an entrepreneur and investor. He cofounded Palantir Technologies and the venture firm 8VC. He is the chairman of the University of Austin (UATX) and the Cicero Institute, a nationwide policy group.

Those tests died in the late 1970s. Because of racial disparities in the results, activist courts ruled that even if tests were predictive of job performance, they were illegal because of the "disparate impact." Soon, the government was hiring people who would have failed these tests — less qualified people from all backgrounds. President Jimmy Carter's 1979-80 Democratically-controlled Congress also made it harder to hold government workers accountable. Since then, the bureaucracy has become dumber and dumber.