Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday, “Most Americans simply want to live their lives in freedom and peace, but we are under attack in a left-wing culture war we didn’t start and never wanted to fight.”
She was talking about wokeism.
”Every day, we are told that we must partake in their rituals, salute their flags, and worship their false idols,” she continued, “all while big government colludes with Big Tech to strip away the most American thing there is—your freedom of speech.”
“That’s not normal. It’s crazy, and it’s wrong,” the governor added.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: "We are under attack in a left wing culture war we didn't start, and never wanted to fight. Every day we are told we must partake in their rituals, salute their flags, and worship their false idols…That's not normal. It's crazy, and it's wrong."
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 8, 2023
This was the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. Sanders took on a number of subjects, such as inflation, border security, and the fentanyl epidemic. But the current iteration of the culture war was a reoccuring central theme throughout her speech.
Sanders observed how the far-left of the Democratic party, which holds more sway over the mainstream of the party than at any time in modern history, insists that age-old consensuses about human biology and basic normality are now outdated or even evil. She acknowledged a political environment in which Big Tech companies regulate speech and thought according to woke ideology, where basic assumptions about gender or a refusal to use pronouns is now considered hate speech.
And she’s right. This woke s***’s crazy. Sanders is right to point it out and to promote her party by saying, basically, and unequivocally, Republicans are not that.
In categorizing the choice between Republicans and Democrats as one between “normal” and “crazy,” Sanders echoed what left-leaning comedian Bill Maher said in September about the danger wokism poses to Democrats.
“The biggest problem with the Democrats is their woke baggage,” Maher said in an interview last year. “I think the Democrats could easily win every election if they didn’t do the kind of things that make people go, ‘Oh my god, this is the party of no common sense.’”
Maher added, “Stop talking about pregnant men and stuff that makes people go, ‘Who are these f***ing people? What are they talking about? Men don’t get pregnant.’ It’s the stuff that makes them very vulnerable because it’s very close to home.”
Maher is a left-leaning comedian and pundit. Yet because he is a frequent critic of wokeism, many on the Left now try to paint him as right-wing.
In other words, the crazy people in the Democratic party Sanders was criticizing don’t like Maher’s appeals to normalcy. Republicans should hope Maher’s critics continue to define and guide the Democratic party.
None of this is to dismiss Republican lunacy, which is aplenty and runs amok. But the most basic tenets of wokeism are two fold:
- It rejects liberalism. Wokeism is defined in large part as discarding diverse opinions. There is only one viewpoint allowed and dissenters must be censored or canceled for defying it.
- Woke insists on adherence to new supposed truisms that defy logic and human history. Examples: Men can get pregnant. Biological men who become trans women also become, magically, biological women who should compete with actual biological females in sports. (With the biological males often, so surprisingly, winning.)
Also, men don’t exist. Women don’t exist. Gender doesn’t exist. Yet there are also ten thousand genders.
Republicans are for NORMAL.
Democrats are for CRAZY.
Well said, @SarahHuckabee.
— Congressman Byron Donalds (@RepDonaldsPress) February 8, 2023
Normal people don’t think like this. There are enough people with influence in the Democratic party and the larger left-leaning dominant popular culture who absolutely adhere to this new woke insanity.
This is a good trend for Republicans. There are more normal people in America than woke people.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders wanted viewers to know her party is normal and the other major party is crazy. That premise is debatable on some fronts, but on wokeism, she has a point. An important point.
In other eras, merely not being crazy might seem like a strange or unnecessary appeal.
In 2023, it’s not.
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