Let’s cut straight to it: DEI didn’t just soften the ground — it buried the body. What happened in Minnesota wasn’t a mistake. It wasn’t a bureaucratic screw‑up. It wasn’t a few bad actors exploiting a loophole. It was structural, political, and ideological — camouflaged under a mountain of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion language that turned every oversight mechanism into a moral minefield. That’s why the biggest theft of taxpayer money in modern American memory — one that has