Explaining the title The Elect: > One more thing: We need a crisper label for the problematic folk. I will not title them “Social Justice Warriors.” That, and

Explaining the title The Elect: > One more thing: We need a crisper label for the problematic folk. I will not title them “Social Justice Warriors.” That, and other labels such as “the Woke Mob” are unsuitably dismissive. One of the key insights I hope to get across is that most of these people are not zealots. > The author and essayist Joseph Bottum has found the proper term, and I will adopt it here: We will term these people The Elect. I prefer the term Social Justice Activists.