You may safely assume that it was a beautiful pen. The most gorgeous pen ever used to wipe out six decades of discriminatory hiring and admissions policy, established without a single Congressional vote.

The Manhattan Institute's Christopher Rufo explained that Trump's rescind order is wide-ranging, "banning all federal contractors and publicly-funded universities from practicing race-based discrimination, including DEI." If Rufo's name sounds familiar, he's been a powerful force in taking back America's institutions from the radical left. Rufo was appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis two years ago to reform the state's New College into a place where students can get a classical education, based loosely on Michigan's Hillsdale College.

Time magazine shrieked about Rufo's "alarming and deceptive" crusade against DEI and gender studies, and the New Republic called him "a disturbing figure." That's endorsement enough for me.

But I digress.

The universities will scream bloody murder over losing their racial/sexual/whatever preferences. But it will be much more illuminating than one of their "Various Victimhood Studies About Studies" degrees to learn whether they'd rather give up their cherished admissions spoils systems or their precious public funding.