This is the week America waged a war on woke and won

BLM, Latinx, pronouns, critical race theory, defunding the police it’s over

- Sarah Baxter

Two worlds collided at Donald Trump's victory celebration in the early hours at Mar-a-Lago. Trump entered the stage first with his family in tow. Melania was followed by Barron, their lanky 18-year-old son, who has become something of a pin-up at his university campus in New York. Ivanka, striking as ever in a blue velvet pantsuit, lagged behind other members of the family, partly obscured from view. This pecking order felt deliberate.

Ivanka was like the ghost at the feast, who had sidled back to Trumpland from the world of woke. It was her only campaign appearance at her father's side.

It was Barron, the Gen Z whisperer, who came through for dad; Barron who told Trump his generation was up for grabs. Young men were fed up with being patronised and sidelined, he said. On Barron's advice, Trump gave interviews to the podcasters and YouTubers that young men (and their girlfriends) enjoy: Theo Von, Lex Fridman, Adin Ross, Logan Paul. By talking to them and to Joe Rogan, the man with the biggest megaphone in America, Trump reached tens of millions of disaffected young people.

My own son, 24, warned me how big this band of bro-casters was. In the early morning, while Trump was crushing Harris in every battleground state, we spoke on the phone. "It's a backlash against wokeness," he told me.

"Young men feel they are getting stuffed, that they have no purpose, that they should be strong and go back to the way men used to be." Wokeness has been comprehensively defeated in this election. The era of Black Lives Matter, Latinx, critical race theory, pronouns and defunding the police is over- or will have to be if the Democrats are to regain power. Not even young people want to be "woke" any more.