When power shifts from one highly polarized group of people to another, not only politics but also society faces a change or challenge on a cultural and sociological level. In the United States, this situation may be reflected in woke culture, which has for years constituted a particular point of division between supporters and opponents of President-elect Donald Trump.

Essentially, wokeism refers to awareness of social inequality, racial and gender discrimination, LGBTQ rights, etc. Although it was used long ago for black people to become equal citizens, over time these issues were included as well.

What facet of Wokeism?

As Joanna Williams says in her important 2022 book “How Woke Won,” “Defining woke is not simple. Woke may be omnipresent, but it is also elusive. » The real problem I’m going to discuss here is determining what constitutes a “right.” What one group considers a “right” and imposes on others may be considered a violation by another group. For example, many Democrats view transgender men’s participation in women’s sports as an LGBTQ right. Vice President Kamala Harris supports this. Trumpists, for their part, see it as extremism and oppose men who hit women in the name of sport. Today’s wokeists, instead of accepting this as an area open to discussion and seeing it only as an issue on which they disagree, have taken it as evidence of Trump’s hostility towards LGBTQ people. Because according to them, not denying the physical evidence and making a link with “masculinity” is being hostile towards LGBTQ people.

However, compared to the steps taken by Putin, the steps taken by Trump during his presidency that are interpreted as anti-LGBTQ are incomparably minimal and only serve to curb the extremities of some extremists. In fact, the Republican National Committee (RNC) argued that “President Trump has taken unprecedented steps to protect the LGBTQ community” and released a very long list showing his pro-LGBTQ words and actions in 2020. Wokeists also try to trivialize the issue. saying that the number of these athletes is low. But it is clear that even one person, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who is considered biologically male according to a recently leaked medical report, has caused a lot of trouble.

Likewise, regarding the issue of abortion, Trump is probably not in favor of implementing it and considers it murder and radicalism to do so even after eight to nine months. Its supporters also view allowing women to be born as the first step toward women’s rights. Many contemporary wokeists, on the other hand, consider it misogyny if abortion is not unconditionally defended.

Additionally, Trump’s statement that “it doesn’t matter to me, but she has to decide which” after Harris first said she was Indian and then black was seen as racism blatant by the wokeists in question. He criticizes manipulatively appearing as a member of a group to which one does not belong to gain political advantage. Interpreting this criticism as hostility towards a group and including it within the scope of racism is also considered frivolous and excessive by those who voted for Trump. It is not difficult to interpret the reaction of many people as being tired of anything that is accused of racism and sexism.

In short, the current state of Wokeists resembles the Zionists’ weapon of “anti-Semitism.” Just as Zionists accuse anyone who does not say what they want of being anti-Semitic in the most irrelevant and absurd ways, Wokeists also go to extremes in their interpretation of “rights” and “rights.” ‘equality’ and resort to the most extreme solutions. serious accusations against those who do not agree 100% with what they say.

It can therefore be said that the reaction of many on Trump’s side is not against a certain equality and rights expressed at the beginning and in the essence of Woke culture, but against the excesses of certain groups. In this case, our expectation is not the death of revival but its restraint.

After the election, Democrat Ritchie Torres said Trump had no better friend than the far left, who he said had driven various people away from the party with nonsense such as “defund the police” or “from the river to the sea.” Harris’ promise that taxpayers will fund transgender surgeries for inmates is unnecessary, said pro-Harris MSNBC host Joe Scarborough. These criticisms were assessed on Fox News’ Trumpist show, The Five, with the phrase: “Some Democrats are wondering if it’s time to abandon wokeness.” During his speech, the famous commentator Gutfeld recalled that Elon Musk has a trans child and said: “He knows what wokism has done. It took one of his children away from him.” He also stated that they are not transphobic, explained the current situation with the phrase “We are deliberately massacring children” and stressed that what bothers them is that minor children are involved in such bloody operations . I specifically cited these sentences because it should not be ignored that there is an agreement that includes almost every idea they oppose, including support for Palestine, at work. However, there is a difference between opposing some of the things they mean by “wokeism” and opposing them altogether. As shown for example by the explanation we gave above, we can only speak of absolute opposition to wokism if we are against LGBTQ people in general. And such a situation certainly does not appear to exist in the United States at the moment.

In fact, last year the Washington Post published an opinion claiming that “Wokeness is Winning” based on a survey conducted by the University of Chicago’s NORC research institute. According to the “Transgender Acceptance” survey, 56 percent of respondents said their society was about right or “didn’t go far enough.” The view described as “anti-woke” that the United States has gone too far in accepting them is shared by 43%. Concerning “acceptance of gay, lesbian or bisexual people”, the survey reveals that 69% of those questioned are woke compared to 29% anti-woke.

In the election, some 57 percent of Florida residents voted to try to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution. But they also voted for Trump. Overall, 33 percent of people think abortion should be legal in most cases, and 49 percent of them voted for Trump, according to CNN. This data clearly shows that many pro-abortion people are among Trump’s supporters. In short, various woke topics were also digested by Trump supporters. This shows that the main role in the election outcome was played by the economy and not the culture wars.

The main reason is the economy

Republican Dave McCornick, who defeated incumbent Bob Casey in Pennsylvania’s Senate race, explained why people chose him over Casey, who was a strong candidate because he has connections deep in Pennsylvania with his father, served as governor there for two terms as follows. : “People deeply distressed by soaring prices, the wide open border, crime in our cities, the war on fossil fuels” He went on to make this important observation: “I don’t think people identify as clearly as Republicans or Democrats. . They want solutions to problems.

At Fox News, which is one of Trump’s most prominent supporters in the media, Laura Ingraham did not emphasize wokeness in her 40 Minutes show on Fox News on November 7. But to those on MSNBC who accused the women who voted for Trump of being uneducated; she said: “Women actually see the grocery bills, understand the costs of heating oil in the winter… They see the problem of migrant crime. These are not single-issue voters!

On the other hand, MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle said after accusing Elon Musk of false propaganda: “Whether it’s the economy, immigration or, for lack of a better term , from “woke”, we have now let misinformation become accepted information… America has just decided: “We’re going to have fun and find out!” »

Ingraham’s following observation in response is worth quoting: “The left is blaming everyone, everything, trying to find something to blame for Kamala’s loss, but they still haven’t realized that they are quite simply totally disconnected from everyday concerns. Americans. » Tulsi Gabbard, who also participated in the program, confirmed the same.

Here’s a moment that sums up the election: Scarborough, mentioned above, reported that when a voter saw $3 butter in a grocery store, she said, “Oh my God, Trump is going to win.” » When his colleague corrected it to $7, he was surprised and asked, “Is this framed in gold?”

Even Madonna seemed to accept that economics determined the outcome when she expressed her reaction: “I’m trying to understand why a convicted criminal, a rapist, Bigot was chosen to lead our country because he is good for ‘economy. »

As HuffPost’s Arthur Delaney put it, inflation “may be the biggest contributing factor to Harris’ resounding defeat,” and “the problem is that falling inflation doesn’t mean prices are falling — “it just means they’re not growing as fast.” . And people hate high prices. This quote of his is also important: “The University of Michigan Consumer Confidence Index in October was 10 points higher than it was two years before. »

ABC News also published an analysis explaining that inflation tilted the election in Trump’s favor.

One of the prominent Democrats, Amy Klobuchar, said, “This is an economic vote.” Maria Theresa Kumar, another Democrat, also indicated that the main reason for Latino votes was the economy, saying: “If you make $15 an hour and your eggs cost you $6, that impact is material.” »

The following observation by author and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich during a television show he attended is important: “The average American is pretty pragmatic…I never worried about the debates. Because the next day, people go to the grocery store, buy gas, and at the end of the day, they’ll remember why they don’t want Democrats.”

Just like erasing part of a stain doesn’t make it all go away… Or just like an expanding empire doesn’t disappear when it finally stops somewhere… Neither is the rejection of some extreme LGBTQ demands a defeat total. and the murder of LGBTQ or Wokeism. The brakes, in fact, are the high cost of living and, as I noted in my November 8 article and subsequent articles by Kathleen Parker and Fareed Zakaria, Democrats’ own mistakes. So, if the Trump administration does not keep its promises, these obstacles can be easily removed.