“Woke is officially DEAD,” Donald Trump announced last summer. That has been a common refrain since the 2024 election: the anti-western, anti-white, pro-transgender ideology is over. The excesses of left-wing radicalism have been rejected. Sadly, nothing could be further from the truth. We’re all still living under the yoke of woke.

Just look at Chicago. Over the Memorial Day weekend, 38 people were injured by gunfire and two were shot dead. Five police officers were hurt when a car drove into a crowd amid widespread disorder. This happened in a city where the Democratic mayor, Brandon Johnson, promised to defund the police. In the summer of 2020, the then-Cook County commissioner passed a resolution to “redirect funds from policing and incarceration to public services not administered by law enforcement that promote community health and safety equitably.”

He has since abandoned the sloganeering elements of the Defund the Police movement; it was electorally toxic. But the underlying policy implications remain. Chicago is in desperate need of more and better-trained police. The City Council has requested another 300 frontline officers. Of course, the mayor has not defunded his own security detail of more than 100 officers.

Johnson is not alone. In Seattle, residents of Aurora Avenue have erected barricades to........

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