The U.S. Ambassador to France has done some re-decorating. She took down some historic portraits and replaced them with pictures of people who reflect diversity. Out are the portraits of Revolutionary War commanders and a Founding Father, In are a socialist labor leader and a transgender activist. Good times, good times. .

Imagine projecting this face of America to the world, or at least to France, our oldest ally. Never mind a visionary Founding Father or a brave Revolutionary War commander. There are quotas to meet in the Biden administration, even in embassies overseas, apparently. Ambassador Denise Bauer, a Democrat fundraiser, made the announcement earlier this month. Pictures of modern Hispanic-American celebrities replaced portraits that have hung in the embassy for years.

“Proud that the entrance to our embassy now better reflects the incredible diversity of my country,” said Bauer, a Democratic fundraiser. “A value that I carry wherever I go in France.”

Among the portraits Bauer banished was that of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, who served as minister to France in 1796. A portrait of Pinckney, a signer of the Constitution and general in George Washington’s Continental Army, was replaced by a photograph of transgender activist Sylvia Rivera, who claimed to have played a prominent role in the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City.

“I have been given the credit for throwing the first Molotov cocktail by many historians but I always like to correct it,” Rivera said of the riots in 2001. “I threw the second one, I did not throw the first one!”

Molotov cocktail. Sounds a little insurrection-y to me. The left does have a violent side to them.

C'était l'une des 1ères photos prises à mon arrivée à Paris. 1 an plus tard, on a décidé de la refaire. Fière que l'entrée de notre ambassade reflète aujourd'hui mieux l'#IncroyableDiversité de mon pays 🇺🇸. Une valeur que je porte où que j'aille en France. pic.twitter.com/kkwdlQeWtz

— Denise Bauer, Ambassadrice des USA en France (@USAmbFrance) February 3, 2023

It was one of the first photos taken when I arrived in Paris. 1 year later, we decided to do it again. Proud that the entrance to our embassy now better reflects the #IncroyableDiversité of my country. A value that I wear wherever I go in France.

History is history. Without the Revolutionary War and the work of the Founding Fathers, there would be no United States.

Before Bauer assumed her new role, France recalled its ambassador from the United States for the first time in history. It was in protest of a military sale. The Biden administration and Australian officials shut France out of a deal for nuclear-powered submarines. Since then, Biden and his administration have been walking on eggshells and trying to make up with France. Biden has had to make nice with President Macron in his work to rally European nations to provide support to Ukraine. Though, truth be told, I think Macron has done more than Biden in that department. It has seemed from the beginning of Putin’s invasion into Ukraine that Biden has led from behind and followed the lead of Macron and other European leaders.

Diversity is the top goal of the Biden administration. The desire to tout a historical first or the number of a certain group of people in the administration exceeds striving for competence and experience. We have seen the results of such posturing. All cabinet-level agencies have been ordered to assess their commitment to racial equity.

Bauer’s redesign saw figures who played consequential roles in early American history lose their prominent position on the atrium wall. John Armstrong Jr., minister to France from 1804 to 1810, was a major during the revolution who eventually became a U.S. senator and secretary of war. Swiss-born Albert Gallatin, known as “America’s Swiss Founding Father,” was minister to France as well as secretary of the Treasury and founder of New York University.

In their place, the embassy has installed pictures of a new set of historic figures, including Dolores Huerta, a labor leader and former honorary chair of Democratic Socialists of America. Huerta was a frequent speaker at conferences and rallies allegedly linked to the Communist Party USA from the 1960s through the ’90s, and in the 2000s was an outspoken advocate for the release of five Cuban spies arrested while operating in the United States.

The other Hispanic-American figures whose portraits were installed are labor leader Cesar Chavez, Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor, novelist Sandra Cisneros, and Hall of Fame baseball player Roberto Clemente.

Apparently, most of this show of highlighting Hispanics was due to the celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month. It’s unclear if the other portraits have been put back up or not. A spokesman for the State Department described the atrium wall as a “temporary exhibition space” She is the first ambassador to move portraits and make room for displaying those who represent whatever the month seeks to represent. She did the same thing during Women’s History Month to display portraits of Democrat women.

Bauer was an ambassador during Obama’s second term.

Bauer is a prolific Democratic Party fundraiser whom Biden nominated for the ambassadorial role in July 2021. A former California cable news producer, Bauer raised more than $4.3 million for former president Barack Obama during his two presidential campaigns and served as ambassador to Belgium during Obama’s second term. She was executive director of Women for Biden in 2020.

Diversity above all else. How embarrassing.