THE RATIONALE: The electorate punished the Democrats for being woke. THE REALITY: There are two major problems with this theory. First of all, Joe Biden, an old moderate white guy, was selected by the Democrats in 2020 precisely because he wasn’t woke. Harris, for her part, ran as a tough cop who didn’t have time for identity issues. Second, the high tide of wokeness was in 2020, when the Democrats prevailed. They also outperformed expectations in 2022. Ron DeSantis ran on fighting wokeness and lost to Trump. Other than a few anti-trans commercials, Trump barely raised the issue, preferring to talk about inflation and illegal immigrants. Why, given this record, would anyone attribute the outcome of the election to wokeness?