It’s Black Voters, Stupid. And Thank God for That.

Hey guys: If you missed Jasmine’s Triad last week, go back and give it a read. It’s so good.Her thesis is that while “woke” eventually grew into an amorphous oppressive blob—if you like Thanksgiving or don’t like bike lanes, then you are read out of the movement!—the original ideas behind “staying woke” are pretty valuable. And also turned out to be . . . right. Here’s Jasmine:Maybe at this point you’re thinking I’m making a True Woke has never been tried! argument. Not quite. My point is that “wokeness”—in an idealized form—is an argument for guardrails against unrestrained domination by the most powerful forces in society. It was in the calls for an end to extrajudicial police killings. It was in the demands for accountability when influential figures parroted harmful racist remarks. It