Idea: Any corpo that dropped DEI to appease fashy bigots should be banned from govt contracts for 15 years. And the ppl in charge (C suite and board) will have the 15 follow them so any corpo they sign on with would inherit the ban.
"But that would kill our major defense contractors!"
Good.
"But they will just go out of biz and cash out."
Cool, new law can say that any bankruptcy or closure reasonably related to above means company assets used to pay each non-exec employee up to a years salary before any other payout, starting at lowest paid and going up from there. So they can't cash and dash.


