Republicans have alighted on a strategy of decrying the dangers of “wokeism” and all things “woke” — catchall terms they have weaponized to include a host of liberal policies and positions they don’t like.
Leftists are angry that Republicans disagree with their cultural marxism, and would like to see any criticism automatically branded as sexist, racist, or otherwise beyond discussion. The authoritarian impulse of the Leftists is blatant and disturbing.
Normal people think that the Leftists won’t win, but they so often do. If a parent is disturbed that her daughter is changing in a locker room with an adult man sporting an erection, the parent is instantly dismissed as a hateful bigot. If a female athlete, who has been training for years, doesn’t want to lose to a man, she is invited to resign from the team.
Transgender politics is completely unreasonable, yet all criticism became taboo in a very short time.
Republicans and conservatives can’t be intimidated or timid when targeted for standing up for judging people by the content of their character, rather than their race. Wokeism, cultural marxism, whatever one wants to call it, is divisive and authoritarian and must be resisted. Ten years ago, no one would have thought that Canada would submit to tyranny so quickly.