Posted on 11/11/2021 12:25:30 PM PST by Rummyfan
There are many ways to parse the Republican upset over a Democrat party boss in Virginia this November. Was it proof of the GOP rebounding after a Trump binge? Was it a foretaste of bigger Democrat wipeouts to come in 2022? Was it, to riff off of TAC contributing editor Matthew Walther’s take, false euphoria over a pyrrhic non-conservative win?
I think all of these views have merit. For my part, my initial gut reaction to the Old Dominion election was, “Thank God the Clinton henchman and McCabe-ist swamp creature got shown the door.”
But as the hours wore on and the warm rush of dopamine—which always comes from watching glum, defeated liberals mope on the TV—wore off, I began to think that Democrat strategist James Carville’s pithy assessment captured the moment best. It was “stupid wokeness,” my fellow big-mouthed Cajun noted, that hung like an albatross around Democrats’ necks. That’s the ticket right there. Woke croaked this month.
Americans are not going to be told anymore that we are all racist, evil, oppressive goons ruining the lives of every blessed minority in creation. That asinine fable, which many on the left apparently believe, is not going to sway the electorate any longer. We have long been a guilted people. But the Guilted Age is over. The insufferable woke punditry and academic-bureaucratic complex are going to have to find some other high hobby horse to ride.
By “guilted” I mean the knotted, clotted rage of the left against pretty much the entire country. This rage has dominated the mediascape and institutional mood this past half decade. It has become the hobby, the very bad habit, of the elite to hector and browbeat all the little people going about their business in the workaday world...
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...
The Left has pretty much become a parody of itself...................
“But the Guilted Age is over.”
It seems a little premature to declare victory on this one. The woke left controls (or at least strongly influences) pretty much every major institution in this country. They had a setback last week, but they ain’t going down without a fight.
I’ll exhibit my stupidity again. What’s that picture supposed to convey.
I hope the author is correct, that wokeism is on the decline.
There’s an imprecise sentence that calls into question his thinking behind the entire article. Perhaps it’s because his employer requires that he generate words even when his own thoughts on the given subject aren’t complete.
“Americans are not going to be told anymore that we are all ...” He surely means white Americans, or maybe conservative Americans.
The photo is of Winsome Sears, the newly elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.
At first I thought the headline was either a typo, or someone who didn’t know what “guilded” was, but it’s a rather clever play on words. Good post. Thanks.
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