Piers Morgan: Trump's Stunning Comeback Victory Has Cured America of the Woke Mind Virus

Slightly misleading and obviously false headline.

   He actually argues for the obviously more reasonable claim that the outcome of the election shows that the WMV is dead.

   I don't think that's true either, though.

   It does show what we already knew: many people alredy reject Woketarian madness.

   As I've said many times: I foolishly thought this insanity--political correctness as it was then known--had more-or-less died out by the turn of the century. In fact, after it's forays out into the broader culture died out, PC just retreated back to universities, where it got stronger and crazier, and more assiduously indoctrinated another generation of students. Since the members of our elite class all pass through that bottleneck, this was a sound Leninist strategy: take over the schools and you take over the culture. By about 2012 it burst out again, this time successfully infecting all our major institutions. Since I had moved from a major research university in grad school to a job at a regional teaching college, I barely encountered it anymore. I was caught almost as by surprise as everyone else. Damn stupid of me. Damn stupid.

   At any rate: I now suspect that this will be an ongoing battle, and we should not expect total and final victory. One of the central ideas driving political correctness / Woketarianism is Marxism. And Marxism has proven to be a lasting thorn in the side of the West. Of course I hope it's dead--but it isn't. We've won some victories, and we need to win more. We need keep fighting it and not quit. We need to push it back and wipe it out to as great a degree as possible, hitting it hard now and trying to at the very least wipe out the gains it has made over the last decade. We also need to break its grip on universities, reducing it to the status of just another wacky philosophical/political view inhabiting the vast universe of wacky philosophical/political views. Currently, it exerts hegemonic control over academia.

   A leader of an organization to which I've belonged once said that he'd consider us to have lost if we were still fighting this fight in five years. I responded that I thought this was the wrong attitude. As we'll likely never completely wipe out crazy right-wing religious views, we'll probably never completely wipe out these crazy left-wing philosophical views... It'll likely be a never-ending battle.

   In fact, I expect Trump's victory to have at least two kinds of consequences: (i) it will directly challenge and undermine political correctness; (ii) it will strengthen the commitment to PC on the hard-core, activist and academic left. Among other things, we need to work to insure that the effects of (i) outweigh the effects of (ii).

   And, again: we need to think of this as an ongoing fight. The election of '24 is a major victory, but not a final one. Think Saratoga, not Yorktown.