Requiem for the Woke Era

I have the pronounced sense that the Woke Era is finished and gone for good. What’s been surprising in the blizzard of Trump actions is how little of a fight liberals have put up for some previously sacrosanct progressive causes — affirmative action, for instance, or aspects of trans rights. The quiet sense is that liberals didn’t quite have it in them to stand up to progressives on their own on hot-button ‘moral’ issues but are grateful to Trump to have done their dirty work for them, and to have configured a political landscape that — whatever else may be said about it — will be different from the politics of the ‘10s or the early part of the 2020s.