Will a Harris loss spell the end of the DEI craze?
If/when Harris loses, I imagine that Democrats will start asking questions about what went wrong. They will likely admit that they were forced to give her the nomination at least in part because of her identity. I actually heard that some on the left would have been really upset if they passed over her in order to recruit a white man (e.g. Gavin Newsom). In other words, the hand of the Democrats was forced by DEI, and they lost because of it.
Will this spell an end to the craziness of DEI that we have seen so much of in the past decade or so? We can only hope, but the woke crowd is anything but rational. I suspect that what would happen is we'd see a split in the Democratic Party between old school pragmatists who still realize merit trumps wokism, and naive woke idealists who simply want to push identity. Each would be fighting over the bigger pieces of the pie for the direction of the party. The pragmatists would point to Harris' loss as proof that DEI adventures end in heavy losses, and the woke idealists would probably hunker down and threaten to take their votes somewhere else.
Whatever happens, the developments will be interesting.