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A piece of political conventional wisdom that emerged from President Donald Trump’s convincing 2024 electoral victory was that the country had decisively moved on from “wokeness.” The scolding, joyless, pseudo-religious fervor that had gripped much of our discourse, having been forcibly inflicted on our culture and institutions by leftist elites and activists, was over. Reinstating Trump as president was, in no small measure, an act of revolt against this stifling regime.