Stories About Waking Up from Woke | The Free Press

A black activist fights the progressivism he says is destroying his city. Left-wing Jews say screw the allyship after seeing fellow progressives cheer Hamas s pogrom. Immigrant New Yorkers oppose the new migrants coming to New York with the expectation they re going to be taken care of.

Today in The Free Press, three stories paint a picture of a larger political shift happening in America.

It is sometimes said of the pandemic that it accelerated preexisting trends: we were already living online more and more, reinventing the traditional 9 to 5, automating ever larger parts of the economy, and abandoning shopping malls. And the lockdowns simply turbocharged it all.

Might recent weeks be having a similar effect on our politics? Could outrage at the horrifying events in Israel, the global explosion of antisemitism, and the Hamas apologism on campuses and in newsrooms, crystallize into a big political upheaval? 

Yesterday, Elon Musk, responding to a Free Press story on X, said that people are waking up from woke. Last week, a similar argument was made by Konstantin Kisin in our pages with his essay The Day the Delusions Died. He wrote that many people woke up on October 7 sympathetic to parts of woke ideology and went to bed that evening questioning how they had signed on to a worldview that had nothing to say about the mass rape and murder of innocent people by terrorists.  

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Who knows. Could be something to this.