If ‘Woke’ Puritanism Is the Disease, Trump’s Amoral Populism Isn’t the Cure

If ‘Woke’ Puritanism Is the Disease, Trump’s Amoral Populism Isn’t the Cure

To what extent should a society demand adherence to moral norms? Three months into Donald Trump’s second presidency, it’s a question worth asking. Having rejected the puritanical “woke” moralism of the 2010s and early 2020s, Americans are now enduring the opposite problem: Trump and his chief corporate enabler, Elon Musk, have over-corrected, embracing a morality-free style of governance fuelled entirely by a drive to hoard power and punish thei…