U.S. State Department hire Darren Beattie wrote on X: "Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men."

“Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work,” he wrote in an October post on X. “Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.”

Darren Beattie was a speechwriter for Donald Trump — until the White House learned that he had appeared alongside the prominent white nationalist Peter Brimelow at a conference two years earlier. The administration fired Beattie,