Woke Got What It Wanted—and Then What? By Victor Davis Hanson for American Greatness
Of the collapse of the woke appeal, perhaps we could say, “It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of zealots.”
The woke movement was giddy after January 20, 2021. The Left controlled both houses of Congress.
Joe Biden was drafted as the necessary veneer of 1980s Democratic normality to ram through an otherwise hard Left agenda.
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All the major cultural, financial, economic, entertainment, and media institutions had played various roles in seeing Donald Trump not just defeated, but also impeached twice. He was written off as persona non grata after the January 6 riot at the Capitol.
So, academia, the corporate boardroom, Hollywood, the media, the Pentagon, professional sports, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street in near hysterical fashion all boarded the woke train.
All now boasted of ferreting out “white rage,” and hiring legions of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” czars.
Critical race theory would be mainstreamed to excise racism and discrimination by embracing racism and discrimination.
“Crime” was to be seen now mostly as a construct created by the elite to protect their own privilege, prerogatives, and property. Shoplifting, looting, and street thuggery were just part of living in a normal city.
Social justice warriors could replace defunded police. Gone would be most bail, incarceration, mandatory jail time, stop-and-frisk, and broken-windows deterrent policies.
Green agendas would fundamentally transform America to put an immediate stop to man-made “climate change.” So, lots of oil and gas leases were either canceled or their fees vastly increased.
Pipelines were stopped. Gas and oil companies were warned that everything from lack of financing to new regulations would put them soon out of business. The golden age of wind and batteries was already upon us.
Modern monetary theorists assured us that printing money “spread the wealth”— devaluing the cash of undeserving capitalists who had too much and implanting it in the hands of the needy who unfairly had too little.
