Equality movements may stall but cannot reverse course entirely

Evidence

The election of 2016 and what followed made many people think that the trend toward plural equality has been only skin-​deep. Perhaps; but by no means all of it. The revolt of history’s underdogs has been wide and powerful; the train has stalled on the tracks, but it has no way of going backward. As yet. — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 4408