This is seductively hopeful, but I fear a bit too rosy. The over-optimism seems to center around a rather glib re-definition of "Mainstream" predicated on a speculative expectation that resembles the older idea of the "Silent Majority" as well as the closely related concept of what I have called an "Elitistics" which too artificially and vividly distinguishes the "Elites" from "the People". For this distinction to be (hopefully) true, at the very least the mass numbers of Leftism we seem to see would have to be some kind of illusion, perhaps some kind of propaganda fiction. But that would have to be proven more robustly, not just assumed. A messier scenario would be that, okay, there is a Slim Silent Majority, one isn't denying there exist millions and millions of Leftists out there, it's just that at least over 50% are hopefully more or less immune (or capable of becoming resistant) to the "woke" demagogy. This scenario would at least proffer a measure of hope, but would also present enormous problems, especially given that the Slim Minority (of Leftists, which by the way, includes most "conservatives") have over time managed to become ensconced in various niches & positions of influence and power in Mainstream structures. I.e., it's more complicated and more difficult a process ahead, than just the vague "people are finally waking up to the Elites" rhetoric indicates.
This is seductively hopeful, but I fear a bit too rosy. The over-optimism seems to center around a rather glib re-definition of "Mainstream" predicated on a speculative expectation that resembles the older idea of the "Silent Majority" as well as the closely related concept of what I have called an "Elitistics" which too artificially and vividly distinguishes the "Elites" from "the People". For this distinction to be (hopefully) true, at the very least the mass numbers of Leftism we seem to see would have to be some kind of illusion, perhaps some kind of propaganda fiction. But that would have to be proven more robustly, not just assumed. A messier scenario would be that, okay, there is a Slim Silent Majority, one isn't denying there exist millions and millions of Leftists out there, it's just that at least over 50% are hopefully more or less immune (or capable of becoming resistant) to the "woke" demagogy. This scenario would at least proffer a measure of hope, but would also present enormous problems, especially given that the Slim Minority (of Leftists, which by the way, includes most "conservatives") have over time managed to become ensconced in various niches & positions of influence and power in Mainstream structures. I.e., it's more complicated and more difficult a process ahead, than just the vague "people are finally waking up to the Elites" rhetoric indicates.