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Trump’s war against wokeness has a long history

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Trump’s war against wokeness has a long history

Only the acronyms have changed in the fight to purge the National Endowment for the Humanities and "woke" education

Published May 11, 2026 6:45AM (EDT)

When Donald Trump took office for the second time he had a big agenda, although it’s never been entirely clear if he knew it. He wanted to enact his precious tariffs and get revenge on his perceived political enemies, but his commitment to anything else was always debatable. Certainly, at the time of his election, nobody knew they were actually voting for Elon Musk to gather a handful of young technology bros to rampage through every government agency and fire as many people as they could under spurious rationales. 

Employees at the Department of Government Efficiency were tasked with shutting down programs and even entire agencies to meet Musk’s pledge to save the country $2 trillion, a promise that........

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