Democrats have just suffered a thorough electoral defeat and are wondering what went wrong
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., removed her pronouns from her bio last week. It was a small shift but a perceptible one.
The Democrats have just suffered a thorough electoral defeat and are wondering what went wrong. The most impactful ad of the election season focused on the far-left trans madness and had the tagline “Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you.”
Democratic political strategist James Carville blames the loss on “wokeness,” and there’s an impulse to optimistically proclaim “the era of woke over” because of President-elect Trump’s decisive victory.
The declarations are premature.
Yes, Vice President Kamala Harris’ pledge to give free sex change operations to illegal immigrant criminals was an eye-opener for a lot of people, but much had happened to get to the point where a candidate could actively support something like that and not be laughed off the stage.
For one thing, the far left wokesters have marched through our institutions for decades, filling roles with their comrades and reorganizing the systems to support their mission. As we laid out in our book “Stolen Youth,” about the woke indoctrination of children, this woke element has captured teachers’ colleges, libraries, medical accreditation organizations, media companies and so on.