End of the 'Woke' Era

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After observing a series of urban disasters in education and public safety,
it seems that even the crew at MSNBC is beginning to figure out that ”woke”
policies create misery for the people they are claimed to help. In cities
from coast to coast, politicians who have embraced the left’s racial
obsessions have inflicted on their citizens schools that don’t teach and
streets that aren’t safe.

The problem for MSNBC is that the network’s employees and guests did as much
as anyone to popularize the term and present it in a positive light. In 2017
MSNBC host Al Sharpton said on the network, “Young people have started a
slogan that we’ve all adopted: Stay woke.” A regular MSNBC guest in recent
years, Danielle Moodie, hosts a podcast called “Woke AF Daily,” which means
that every day listeners can count on her to be exceptionally woke.

Having gone all in on wokeness, perhaps the network can now find a marketing
expert to help redefine it as a relatively benign and moderate alternative to
some even more radical set of destructive and unworkable policies. Lucky for
MSNBC, it seems the network has already found such an expert. Hanna Penreck
at Fox News noticed the rebranding effort, which commenced on Wednesday
during the MSNBC program “Morning Joe.” Ms. Penreck notes:

Host Joe Scarborough first noted that Democrats have been struggling
with the Hispanic, Black and Asian voter base, before panelist Donny
Deutsch, host of “On Brand With Donny Deutsch,” offered his blunt
assessment that Democrats have gone too far woke.

“The Democrats have to step away from the super wokeness,” Deutsch
said. “I mean San Francisco really tells what’s going on. You have
three school board members that were voted out by 70% because they’re
focusing on things like changing the name of schools. This is not what
voters care about. When it comes to school, they care about are they
safe, are they getting the right education … are the schools open?”

“This is a factual political discussion,” he continued. “If you give
the Republicans the ability to point the Democrats as this super-woke
culture focused on the wrong things that don’t matter to voters … you’re
going to lose. So you need to step away from super-wokeness.”

So wokeness is ok, as long as politicians avoid super-wokeness?

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