I suspect some of my subscribers will roll their eyes when they see I've written a post in the summer of 2026 devoted to wokeness. To judge by public statements of liberals and progressives, the center-left and harder left really find the topic tedious and even infuriating. How can we still be talking about stuff that peeked roughly five years ago and, sure, was sometimes kind of annoying, when a wildly corrupt and malicious president aims to govern as an autocrat and his maximally deferential party controls both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court' I heard left-leaning New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie say exactly that in a video post just last week. For a guy who back between 2018 and 2022 never conceded a millimeter of ground about wokeness, dismissing criticisms of it as pure gaslighting, Bouie is now surprisingly willing to admit that he, too, thought it was all a bit much back in the day, while using that concession to enhance his credibility in dismissing anyone...
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