Commentary It is now clear that as the avalanche of wokeness and national self-hate that has crashed over the restraining walls of the American mythos, one pillar of traditional American democracy after another has fallen. The whole process was so sudden and has come on so unexpectedly that it is still difficult to appreciate the gravity of the assault on the American conception of itself that foresaw, accompanied, and celebrated the unprecedented rise of this country, in two long lifetimes after the end of the American Revolution in 1783 to a position of unprecedented preeminence in the world, with half the world GDP and a nuclear monopoly in 1945. The 2016 election revealed that the American middle and working classes felt that the country was being misgoverned and unjustly milked by a new class of get-rich-quick young people, favored by the preferments of exemplars in the Clinton and Obama administrations. …