«“Woke 1 was crazy,” said Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York in a recent interview. The congresswoman, in remarks to ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, seemed to distance herself from the stances of Democratic politics around 2020, shortly after she rose to fame. Some sectors of the left now consider the rhetoric of that era to be ineffective and divisive. There has been a widespread rollback in corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. And some public officials, including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, have backtracked on their proposals to cut police funding».

«"Well, we know that went too far. We know that we, the progressives, ended up demobilizing and neutralizing those who could and should have been our allies on the left," she said, "and we gave the right the opportunity to use that term publicly against the goals that many people on the left share.»

Now the question is: will they embrace universalism? Doubtful, guaranteeing universal rights costs too much and gives more TV minutes to play with identities and grievance battles. Not to mention that the «elites» will miss it.