At dinner tonight I was told “Oh, you’re one of THEM” when I shared how President Trump will take full advantage of SCOTUS overturning the Chevron Doctrine. This person dramatically rolled their eyes so hard at my statement they saw their brain directly and gave themselves severe whiplash. It was quite dramatic, the eye roll. Chewing the scenery with thine eyes.

I inquired what she meant by “them,” as she put so much emphasis on “them.” Her eyes locked in on her meal made of some Impossible meat derivative, unaccustomed to rebuttal challenge and trying to ignore the follow up, so I gave her a few choices aligned with her worldview. Am I a Barackian clinger? Am I a Hillarian deplorable? Am I the garbage Biden speaks of and Border Czar Kamala Harris refuses to denounce? Is this the “them” you insinuate?

The most incredible thing happened. Two other dinner attendees asked her to clarify as well. Then three more asked her for the same clarification, one going further saying, “I really didn’t like your tone.” And then someone else jumped in and asked, “What’s the Chevron Doctrine?” And then another said, “Yeah, we can disagree without getting snotty about it.”

This dinner exchange tonight amongst behavioral health colleagues is illustrative of how woke bullying is fading away. Woke bullying has become an unlikable social faux pas and is no longer the ready means to silence dissenting voices. Americans have had enough of it. Respectful engagement is required and social accountability is demanded. Woke purity shaming is nearing extinction. Americans will no longer countenance any attempt at woke censorship, even something slight like dismissive snottiness over a SCOTUS ruling.

This was more than my estatic support of denying woke censorship, though. What’s more important is these Americans I dined with immediately challenged identity politics and “othering.” Woke ideology seeks to categorize humans into intersectional morsels, and if any of your morsels are decidedly not woke then you are part of THEM. Supporting SCOTUS on the Chevron Doctrine made my morsels unsavory. So I was THEM.

My dining mates in this seemingly innocuous discussion prove what I’ve seen building up for two years. Americans are done with being divided from each other. We want our civility back, we want our culture back, and we want our unity back.

The woke experiment is ending. Make America America Again.

The dinner discussion turned to the Chevron Doctrine and what that meant to mineral material extraction in New Mexico. Most everyone was excited about increased job opportunities and the expanded wealth production of the oil, gas, coal, and metal extraction industries. Like the majority of Americans, the crippled economy is our main priority.