If you listen, the "leaders" of the left are also rejecting "wokism" - for them it has served its purpose and threatens to turn the gun back on them.

'We should openly embrace liberal, tolerant but commonsensical positions on the 'culture' issues, and emphatically reject the 'wokeism' of a small, though vocal, minority,' said Mr Blair

Also, some of us want to threaten the managerial capitalism of democracy. "Protect democracy" is not a persuasive argument.