Fool Me Twice

The Democrats used wokeness to carry out the elites' agenda. Now the Republicans are using anti-wokeness to do the exact same thing.

Update: The Trump administration has clarified that SNAP will not be impacted.

01/28/25 12:30pm PT

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Recall wokeness at the pinnacle of its power. A random utility worker getting fired for accidentally making an OK hand sign. A social justice influencer shaming a father for his white privilege after his child was eaten by an alligator. The President of the United States solemnly meeting with a domestic abuser and would-be kidnapper after he was justifiably shot by police. A vice presidential nominee applauding rioters burning down a city in response to that justified shooting.

Now picture if it had gone one step further: say, if President Biden had suspended the operations of all federal criminal courts until the government could complete an audit of racism in the criminal justice system. What will we do with the accused in the meantime? Won’t this encourage more crime? Why should crime victims have to pay the price for the alleged flaws of the courts? Biden doesn’t say; he doesn’t seem much to care. The important thing is to root out white supremacy, whatever the cost.

At 5pm eastern tonight, the White House will pause almost all federal financial assistance for some temporary but indefinite period, until the new administration can root out all traces of “Marxist equity, transgenderism and Green New Deal social engineering.” In typical Trump fashion, the order is preposterously short on detail, but the consequences will clearly be enormous. It will certainly impact education, health care research, and government services provided by third party nonprofit contractors. It could impact Head Start, SNAP, infrastructure maintenance, disaster relief, small business loans, and just about everything else the federal government distributes money for, aside from Medicare, Social Security and student loans. And it’s all being done in the name of fighting the “elite.”