Can we Have Gender, Ethnic and Sexual Equality without Wokeism?

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Let’s face it — wokeism is dead. As strongly as I may align with the agenda that the wokes were advancing, the agenda is dead, dead, dead.

Wokeism got us Trump in the White House and complete control of the Senate and the House; it led to massive backslides in policy and laws that risk immigrants and disadvantaged minorities being in more precarious positions than they’ve been in for decades. Even the New York Times has come to view wokeism as more of a liability than an asset to the critical social agendas it represents.

Those of you — of us, as I was one — who rallied behind the woke agenda will find this hard to hear; we must face the reality that continuing to bang on the woke drum is doing more harm than good and enabling those we fear most to take bigger and bigger power shares in American and global politics and policy making.

So, for those of us who care deeply about equal rights and liberal sexual expression, where do we go from here?

First, we need to remind ourselves of the issues that are really important to us, and be clear about what we stand for:

• Immigration — America has been the world’s greatest melting pot, taking in generations of newcomers who want a better, fairer, more prosperous future. It doesn’t mean we want to…