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fundamentally reoriented American politics and the hothouse leftism of college campus could be exported to the country at large. In reality, most people were never on board. Joe Biden wouldn’t have won the presidency in 2020 if he’d been woke, and Kamala Harris wouldn’t have been locked in a tight race if she were still running on her erstwhile causes.

By no means does this suggest that woke priorities are on their way out. They are still dominant in academia and in other elite institutions, and Harris could still pursue them.

Her sincerity is neither here nor there, though. That a politician who marinated for decades in progressive California and who once espoused or sounded favorable to every single woke priority realizes that she can’t do so and appeal to a majority of Americans speaks volumes. Harris doesn’t have great political instincts, yet even she gets this.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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