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Woke 2 Still Looks Pretty Crazy

Many progressives are still obsessed by victimhood and group identity, which is a big part of what produced Woke 1. AOC might now prefer to laugh off those ideas. Abolish police? Get rid of Thanksgiving? Ha ha, what a crazy time that was. Yet read today’s news, and it’s easy to wonder whether the fever on the left has even begun to break.

We Happy Few, We Band of Wokesters

Assuming the ridiculous gushing over a Cambridge conman was not a national Monty Python sketch, the Jason Arday affair reminded me of one of the most peculiar things about Britain: They’re more woke than the U.S. Which is weird, because the Mother Country still has a monarchy that rules over tens of millions of white subjects. The closest we have to that in America is the NAACP.

Dems Determined to Stay Woke

Just 35 percent of Democrats said the party should distance itself from the “woke” politics of recent years, while 42 percent preferred to stand their ground. The rest were unsure. Younger Democrats were particularly keen to see the party stay woke.