Dems Starting to Realize: Woke Is Broke

Democratic candidates have often been avatars of elitism -- Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and second-term Barack Obama. The party embraced a worldview of hyper-political correctness, condescension and cancellation, and it supported diversity statements for job applicants and faculty lounge terminology like "Latinx," and "BIPOC" (Black, Indigenous, People of Color).

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This alienated half the country, or more. And the chaos and antisemitism at many college campuses certainly didn't help.


"When the woke police come at you," Rahm Emanuel told me, "you don't even get your Miranda rights read to you."

Ed Morrissey

It's a religious cult, and Americans began to recognize it for what it was. That process will only grow over the next few months, so Democrats had better decide whether they want to compete in elections or join the flatus-sniffing societies of the Academia Elite. 

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