In fairness, I can understand why AOC and other progressives are unhappy with the way “woke” has been co-opted. Over the years, a lot of Black slang has been absorbed into the mainstream. And usually, that’s all good. But with “woke,” the term is now being weaponized against the people who coined it.

Still, it’s not just old, white Republicans who are using “woke” in a derogatory way—nor is it just older white Democrats like James Carville.

It’s even Barack Obama.

“This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re always politically woke and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly,” Obama warned two years ago.

Sure, he’s a codger, too, but progressives might want to listen to the transformational African American leader who won the presidency twice. When it comes to Democrats winning the presidency, it would be impossible to find better living experts than Carville and Obama, yet the congresswoman who won her House district with about 16,000 votes thinks she knows better than both.