Episode 72 [PATREON EXCLUSIVE] -- Anti-Wokesters and Trump 2.0 (Patreon)
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2025-04-27 05:54:28
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2026-09
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For years, they excoriated "wokeness" in all its forms. They issued dire warnings about an ascendant left-wing authoritarianism, about speech codes, forbidden words, coddled students, a new McCarthyism from the left. And now they live in a world in which not only are in fact all these things coming from the right -- where students are disappeared off the streets for having written an op ed, where a single word can get your research defunded. But what's worse: the right is doing all of these things while invoking the dread curse of wokeness to justify them. Where does that leave our anti-woke pundits and public intellectuals. What does Trump 2.0 reveal about their project?