As predicted, Ron DeSantis used much of his time on the stage during the first GOP primary debate to tout his success as Florida’s governor. This includes his ongoing efforts to battle wokeness in all of its forms and to make Florida the state “where woke goes to die.” The legacy media doesn’t have much ammunition to attack DeSantis because the results in the Sunshine State speak for themselves. But the crew at MSNBC clearly thought they had found one weak spot in the Governor’s armor prior to the debate. They decided to redefine the word “woke” so they could insinuate that DeSantis is (wait for it…) a racist. Jose Diaz-Balart teamed up with Trymaine Lee to explain what DeSantis really means when he says woke. No… You really can’t make this stuff up. (Townhall)

According to Diaz-Balart, the word “means so many different things to different people” before asking “where does it come from?” and tossing the segment to MSNBC Correspondent Trymaine Lee…

Lee explained that, “for generations, the term woke was a part of black American inspeak, it meant to keep your eyes open, stay aware to the forces that might be around you that might want to cause you harm, be vigilant. But in recent years its been co-opted, some would say hijacked by far-right wing conservatives and turned into anything but a feeling of awareness,” Lee argued before playing a compilation of Republican presidential candidates using the term “woke” in public remarks and interviews.

“Woke has become a charged political catch-all phrase often used as a battering ram and a battle cry, and to many, a slur,” Lee said before an interview subject says using “woke” is “almost another way of saying black, it’s another way of saying the n-word.”

You’ll hear a lot of dumb things if you spend too much time watching MSNBC, but this one really takes the cake. And I should know. I used to watch Morning Joe fairly regularly some years ago before Joe Scarborough totally lost his mind to TDS and became a Democrat.

Let’s say we are to assume that “woke” was once used in the Black community in the fashion described. (Something that I have found almost no references to online.) In the current era, it has taken on an entirely different meaning and it is both used and recognized all over the media landscape. It applies to the hyper-liberal thoughts and people who are trying to force everyone to embrace a “new normal.” It covers concepts like reparations, the denial of parental rights, and the trans madness that has been sweeping the nation.

Trying to somehow equate this to the experiences of Black Americans is particularly bizarre. Polling regularly informs us that most Black voters really don’t embrace all of the transgender craziness. And they’re not particularly wild about seeing armies of illegal migrants flooding their neighborhoods. (Hey, those migrants have to go somewhere, right? And they’re certainly not welcome in Martha’s Vineyard.) That’s probably why the GOP has been seeing small but meaningful upticks in Black support over the past couple of years. So when conservatives talk about wokeness, I seriously doubt many Black people think we’re talking about them.

But the liberals in the media can’t help themselves. It’s reflexive at this point and it’s pretty much the only arrow they have left their quiver. They feel compelled to defend crazy woke ideas, but those things are largely indefensible. So they do what they always do when they don’t like what someone is saying. They call them a racist. And if they have to make up new definitions for words to make their point, they’re completely comfortable with that as well.

If you had told me thirty years ago that our country would reach a point where a major political party and the mainstream media would be normalizing pedophilia and embracing dangerous, unscientific nonsense, I’d have said you were crazy. But if anyone was saying it at the time, apparently they had access to a crystal ball, because here we are. And it’s beyond alarming.