The 2010s saw attitudes—on issues such as race, immigration, and gender—shift to the left. Liberals became more liberal. And then a "wokeness" backlash began.
The backlash, though, didn’t just come from conservatives. It came from people all over the political spectrum. Host Jerusalem Demsas talks with the *New York Times *columnist Michelle Goldberg) about the death of "wokeness")—and whether we might miss it when it’s gone.
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