Social justice has infected Democrats’ coronavirus response

Published March 25, 2020 8:38pm ET



As bumbling as the Trump administration has been in addressing the current health scare, count on Democrats to come out of this looking so much worse as they try using the crisis as an excuse to push their irritating social justice causes.

Imagine learning that a third of the U.S. economy has shuttered amid a pandemic, and to address the emergency, Democrats swung into action by crafting a multitrillion-dollar bill that, among other things, mandates that any business in need of financial relief “has adopted a policy, plan, or strategy to promote racial, ethnic, and gender diversity.”

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