Chris, EM, and anyone else --

I think you have two questions here (for all of us) Chris -- one being is "stuff stirring?" which I take you to mean something beyond talk in the direction of overt activism. I have not seen it. I see a lot of centrist and moderate organizations, mostly focused on policy, lots inside the beltway. If you or anyone out there know of anything, I'd love to hear about it.

Your second question, I believe, is whether wokism and trumpism are going to implode onto their (intellectually) shaky foundations. Well, one would surely hope so. But I wouldn't count on it. The neoracist woke, for instance, have already begun implementing rules and policies in our schools that require our teachers to teach certain things, even think certain ways, and require our kids to learn this stuff. That is, stuff is getting engrained into our social institutions. As I see it, the foundations may be intellectually weak, but they seem to be organizationally strong, and they are rapidly creating facts on the ground. (And surely there are historically dozens of populist movements that were seen by thoughtful people as intellectually absurd but powerful in other, very consequential ways.) Which gets us back to EM's original point (as well as McWhorter's) about the religious zealotry of the two parties' bases.