You Can’t Kill Woke Culture
Republicans believe Trump’s reelection would destroy ‘cancel culture’ and ‘political correctness.’ No politician can, or will.
With just under a week to go until the general election, embattled conservatives have seized on their closing argument for a Trump presidency: He’s the only man left who can own the libs.
Just look at Rich Lowry’s latest in the National Review. Trump, Lowry writes, is “the only way for his voters to say to the cultural Left, ‘No, sorry, you’ve gone too far.” While admitting that the president has no second-term agenda, no particular skill at either campaigning or governing, and an approval rating that has never topped 50%, Lowry nonetheless clings to Trump as “the foremost symbol of resistance to the overwhelming woke cultural tide that has swept along the media, academia, corporate America, Hollywood, professional sports, the big foundations, and almost everything in between.”
The “overwhelming tide” of which Lowry speaks is vague in its details — he invokes the Black Lives Matter uprisings of this spring with the same apocalyptic dread as he does online “cancellations” — but “wokeness” has become a familiar conservative bogeyman. There’s Nick Sandmann at the RNC proclaiming the evils of “cancel culture” (“Canceled is what’s happening…
