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Why November 5 will not become the Waterloo of wokery

American voters rejected the culture warriors of the left when they picked Donald Trump. But don’t imagine those views won’t still be very powerful in 2044.

Adrian WooldridgeBloomberg columist

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It is easy to conclude that the woke revolution halted on November 5. The Republicans ran the most unwoke man in America for the presidency and were amply rewarded for it.

A post-election analysis by the polling company Blueprint discovered that the top reason why swing voters eventually supported Trump over Harris was culture (+28) followed by inflation (+23).

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Adrian Wooldridge is the global business columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former writer at the Economist, he is author of “The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World.”

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