The Battle to End Wokeness is Just Getting Started
“Some conservatives may get cocky and start to think that the woke movement is dying, or at least on its way out.”
Trump winning the election was a good first step, but that it all it was. There is much further to go.
The Daily Signal reports:
Woke Isn’t Dead. The Battle to Root It Out Is Only Just Beginning.
Donald Trump, the once and future president, won not just the Electoral College but likely the popular vote. In doing so, he defeated the Democrats’ DEI hire candidate, the great intersectional hope Kamala Harris, in part by running on a platform of rooting woke ideology out of the federal government.
Trump’s triumph comes after a year of embarrassing scandals for the woke movement. University professors resigned amid accusations of plagiarism. Companies began rejecting the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index. Democrats began to question whether transgender orthodoxy was costing them elections.
Some conservatives may get cocky and start to think that the woke movement is dying, or at least on its way out.
They couldn’t be more wrong.
Sure, Woke Inc. suffered a couple of setbacks, but it still enjoys dominance of America’s cultural institutions, from Hollywood to academia to the entrenched federal bureaucrats who won’t just resign when Trump takes office again on Jan. 20.
The scattered conservative victories of 2024 are just that: minor plays that gain a few yards and maybe the occasional field goal.
Hold your touchdown dances, friends, we’re nowhere near the end zone.
Take former Harvard President Claudine Gay, for example. Sure, she stepped down amid a torrent of criticism over her flaccid response to antisemitism on her campus, and after a series of plagiarism scandals she could no longer deny.
Yet the legacy media initially leapt to Gay’s defense—downplaying plagiarism as an unserious problem. It took the heroic efforts of a Manhattan Institute senior fellow, Chris Rufo, and many other conservative journalists to expose Gay. And she had real skeletons in her closet.
The next woke leader of Harvard may be far more careful.
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