When Trump was reelected, there was a lot of talk about “the vibe shift.” It was basically a phrase meaning the end of the woke era and the start of something else.

The woke era was really the feeling of disappointment and despair at the end of the Obama era, which was less transformative than the left had hoped, and actually included many real reversals for them.  A lot of it was just an embrace of a certain kind of frank, offensive speech in public again, and in comedy in particular. I think a great deal of it........

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