Cofnas is very good at identifying the causes and logic of Wokeness, but the proposed solution - rally behind Trump/MAGA - leaves much to be desired.

First, there's the assumption throughout that Trump/MAGA champion free speech, in contrast to "cackling" Kamala. This idea is absurd. Trump openly fantasizes about locking up people who defy him. Just a few days ago, he said that critics of the judges he appointed who overturned Roe vs. Wade should go to jail. Vance has just stated that it is legitimate to ban flag burnings. (Trump of course has expressed similar sentiments). The idea that MAGA, one of the dumbest, most criminalized, and most authoritarian political movements in American history, are the principled free speech absolutists of their propaganda is incredible a priori, given that free speech is a high IQ value. But it happens to be directly refuted by their own words. There is no credibly consistent freedom of speech constituency in the US apart from libertarians. There is no such constituency in the UK, period.

Second, it is likewise amusing to think that Trump - a self-absorbed narcissist who has backstabbed near everyone whom he ever worked with, to the point that half his former Cabinet refuses to endorse him - will move anti-Wokeness forwards, as if he cares in the least about such issues. The far likelier scenario is that Wokeness will spike up again in response to the stupidity and legal nihilism that a second Trump administration will unleash, just as it did during the 2016-2020 period. Watching HBDists enthusiastically embrace MAGA in 2024 truly makes me appreciate Dubya's great wisdom as a philosopher: "Fool me twice - can't get fooled again."

Now in principle, I understand the logic of electing Trump to combat Wokeness; that was my logic for enthusiastically supporting him in 2016, to the point of marching around in a MAGA cap through the streets of Berkeley, and even tepidly supporting him again in 2020, against the background of BLM extremism. But to support him now in 2024 in light of everything we know about him, how he sullies any cause or vision he comes into contact with, strikes me as insane. And that is why I am endorsing Kamala in the swing states, and Chase Oliver everywhere else.