Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election was undoubtably a referendum on the current political trajectory of the United States. He won both the popular vote, the first Republican since 2004 to do so, and a significant Electoral College majority, securing the largest electoral margin for a Republican since George H.W. Bush’s 1988 campaign.
Trump heads into a second, non-consecutive term buoyed by a new coalition of voters who saw him as more adept in handling many of their top issues, which included increasing border security, curbing inflation, and tackling the myriad foreign policy challenges, such as the war of attrition and continued aid to Ukraine, a spillover effect of the war in Gaza, and rising Chinese military and economic influence.
But a deeper dive into this year’s electoral realignment reveals that Americans were looking to reverse the country’s perceived social and cultural decay, a challenge represented vis-à-vis the extremes of identity politics and the “woke” agenda.
Wokeism, with its deep philosophical roots, is a grievance-based movement that seeks to shift the public’s social and political consciousness by addressing…
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