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Why America’s social justice narratives always crash and burn

21 October 2021

7:00 AM

21 October 2021

7:00 AM

The wonderful thing about woke narratives is that you only have to wait a while until they collapse. The core of Donald Trump’s appeal in 2016, we were told by the media, was that white supremacists and various gammons saw a chance to reverse racial progress. The results of 2020 showed that, in fact, black and Latino support for Trump had increased over those four years, while Biden won by increasing his white male vote.

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This article is an extract from Andrew Sullivan’s Spectator Diary, which appears in the forthcoming issue of the magazine.


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