When Chris Rufo coined the term "Homeless-Industrial Complex", he got a lot of pushback for it ("Who thinks we want people to be homeless?"). It's been fascinating to watch, over the years since, "blue no matter who" voters in places like San Francisco & Portland reach the same conclusions for themselves, and the term enter the lexicon of people who likely have never read anything Rufo wrote.
Today, Pirate Wires reports on what they call the "DEI Industrial Complex": a group of San Francisco city departments & associated non-profits whose "primary role is to provide jobs for activists and buy political support."
As an aside, content like this makes the media's claims of an industry-wide "collapse" bewildering to me; here I am, paying for reporting that I value… what collapse?