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A new front on the republican War against Woke? [1]

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Date: 2023-06-04  

Republican presidential lightweight Ron DeSantis ratcheted up the war against “woke”, twisting Winston Churchill's words to announce a war on the American People, who don’t agree with his twisted vision of what America should be.

In the republican world, “woke” means any American that does not ascribe to the GOP vision of white supremacy; “woke” means any American that believes in Democracy, equality and justice; “woke” means any American that believes in Science, Education and the Truth.

x DeSantis: As president, I recognize that the woke mind virus represents a war on the truth so we will wage a war on the woke. We will fight the woke in education, we will fight the woke in corporations, we will fight the woke in the halls of congress. pic.twitter.com/8bd7eQSDgM — Acyn (@Acyn) June 3, 2023

So, in other words, Republicans are at war with the American People and are now encouraging violence and bloodshed? Isn’t that what our enemies want to do to us? Isn’t that treason?

Meanwhile, few days ago, trump the TFG seemed to get one thing right — that the right cannot define “woke” and they use it simply as a cudgel.

x Trump: "I don't like the term 'woke," because I hear the term 'woke woke woke' -- it's just a term they use, half the people can't define it, they don't know what it is." pic.twitter.com/uhZLRADXHa — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 1, 2023

trump perhaps wants to use some other word to describe the same thing, after all he started this war.

Perhaps, trump is getting concerned with DeSantis’s campaign and is trying to capture some of the “woke” vote?

Which is why DeSantis is now going to double and triple down on the rhetoric with the word “woke”?

The even lesser candidate Nikki Haley has been ratcheting it up as well trying to capture the “anti-woke” vote by preaching hatred and intolerance -

x Abortion access would like a word.. https://t.co/zEB85Bc3jp — Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) June 4, 2023

On economic and foreign policy, these folks have little to say. Except, occasionally, the truth slips out — that these republicans are totally enamored with Putin and his fascist regime.

x Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley suggested in an interview that U.S. forces “need to align” with non-European countries including Russia to enhance global security, a remark her campaign characterized as a gaffe. https://t.co/qkbr9PBJn9 — PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) June 4, 2023

Some reactions —

x Ron is somewhere having an aneurysm over this. — The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 1, 2023

The GOP strategy is to lie, mislead and divide; they don’t solve any real problems, they never have.

x Ron DeSantis is waging war on woke because it’s a lot easier than fighting real problems like poverty, homelessness, mental illness, gun violence, racism, bigotry, inequality, domestic terrorism, corruption, pollution, or climate change. pic.twitter.com/6bTQlZwX9W — The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) June 4, 2023

Fear is all the GOP has to sell.

x Since its adoption of its "Southern Strategy" in the 1960s, the GOP's primary domestic offering has been the exploitation of racial fear.



Every 4 years it re-appears w/new formulations - Willie Horton, terrorists, Mexican Rapists - and now DeSantis' ridiculous "war on woke." https://t.co/o5ambIafBX — Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) June 4, 2023

Unfortunately, this is a good prediction.

x My guess is the race for the GOP primary won't be about any actual policy. It will be a race to see who can use the word "woke" the most. — Katie Porters Whiteboard (@Amy0227) June 1, 2023

Here is a good definition of “woke” —

x I’m fine with the virus pic.twitter.com/pacbHiQFZu — Lee Marshall (@lee_sw8) June 1, 2023

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