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Shocker, the right has gone “Woke.”
This may sound crazy, but the right is getting “woke.” That's strange because the right's battle cry against progressives is that they're all woke, and w-o-k-e is a four-letter word.
This may sound crazy, but the right is getting “woke.” That's strange because the right's battle cry against progressives is that they're all woke, and w-o-k-e is a four-letter word. During the 2024 election, Vice President JD Vance often disparaged Democrats' woke ideology, which he insists is ruining the country, although he couldn't define what “woke” is.
But we digress—how could the MAGA right be woke? It goes like this: if you say the wrong thing about right-wing activist Charlie Kirk and get called out, like Jimmy Kimmel, the people criticizing you are the “woke right.” According to…
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