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Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Commentary: How ‘Woke’ May Be Leading Us to Civil War

The other day, I wrote that “woke” was the new conformism. 

It is, of course, but I undersold it. It’s much more than that and more dangerous. 

As Tal Bachman notes at Steynonline, it’s now our state religion, a state religion in a country that—constitutionally and for good reason—isn’t supposed to have one.

But “Wokism” is yet more than that, too. It’s a mass psychosis similar to many that have arisen throughout history when the masses followed leaders who, in their zeal or self-interest, took them to disastrous ends.