OPINION | Is fighting “wokeism” more important to rank-and-file GOP voters than battling inflation—or is this just an obsession of very online right-wing activists? mattklewis suspects the latter.
criticize “woke Disney,” while also attacking DeSantisEven if they hedge their bets or decline to make it the defining issue of their campaign, every Republican who hopes to be viable in 2024, must at least pay lip service to hating on “wokeism.”
During a CNN town hall on Sunday night, former South Carolina governor and former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley declared that “The women's issue of our time” is “the idea that we have biological boys playing in girls sports.” Initially, though, she, “There’s a lot of things. I mean, you want to start with biological boys playing in girl sports.”
Along those lines, do most average Republicans even really have a solid grasp on what the term actually means?: “I don't like the term ‘woke,’ because I hear the term ‘woke woke woke’—it's just a term they use, half the people can’t define it, they don't know what it is.”A few months ago, my mom called to ask me what “woke” meant. The only reason she was even confronted with the term was because she was helping edit my forthcoming book.
Even those well-versed in the culture wars have a hard time summing it up. Back in March, a conservative author was famouslyFor his part, DeSantis recently gave it a try. “Look, we know what woke is, it’s a form of cultural Marxism,”. “It’s about putting merit and achievement behind identity politics, and it’s basically a war on the truth. And as that has infected institutions, and it has corrupted institutions.
DeSantis’ first attempt to define woke involved using another term, “cultural Marxism,” that almost nobody can define. But if you stick with DeSantis, you’ll see that what he’s describing is very real. But it’s also very old.DeSantis’ rationale seems contingent...on convincing us that woke-ism is the most important thing in the world—and that this necessitates hiring him to eradicate it.
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