There are certain jobs where merit, experience, and competence should be the only factors that matter. Fighter pilots, brain surgeons, bomb defusal experts — you get the idea.

Aviation, in particular, is an industry where a single mistake can send hundreds of passengers plummeting toward an unplanned meeting with the ground. So, naturally, the person leading the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) should be a hard-nosed expert in air safety and operations, not a cheerleader for feel-good diversity policies.

And yet, here we are, discussing the potential nomination of Alex Wilcox for FAA Head — a man whose resume screams “corporate woke points” more than “air safety enforcer.”

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