Is The Woke Era Really Over?

Depending on what kind of echo chamber you hang out in, the victory cries of the anti-woke crowd have been reverberating at increasing volume. And why not? The trouncing of Democrats on November 5 and the decisive resurrection of Donald Trump has been framed in many corners as a full-throated rebuke of identity politics. Never mind factors such as the DNC’s lies about the president’s cognitive decline or the fact that the party unilaterally swapped in a candidate who would almost certainly not have won a primary race. The big election takeaway boiled down to “All you rainbow-haired, gender-fluid, land-acknowledging TikTok car criers: your time is up. The problematic people are in charge now.”