Is anti-wokeness a winning election issue for Republicans?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Even if the answer is yes, it won't be for much longer.

The fact is that wokeness is on a decline. It's significantly weaker now than it was in 2020 and has now been mostly rolled back to just being something associated with some liberal arts colleges and weirdos on Twitter that normal people ignore. Corporations using weird terminology is a lot less common (Mainly with "Latinx" of course but other weird terms like "womxn" have been basically put to bed entirely) and you don't see massive controversy anymore over trivial sh!t like someone not having pronouns in their social media bio or how the annual hubbub over Halloween costumes in October this year was a lot more muted than in years past (this incredibly cringe Buzzfeed listicle notwithstanding, however it received almost universal derision in response and they even deleted their tweet on it due to the ratio and backlash.)

So why is that? Well a big factor is that a lot of this stuff was just trends and was never going to last anyway, another is that very few people have the stomach to try to live a truly woke lifestyle long term but I think an underrated factor is that Biden neither promotes and furthers wokeness nor does he inspire a backlash boosting it like Trump did. A lot of the weird woke sh!t of the late 10s was really weirdo true believers and/or grifters trying to capitalize on the backlash to Trump and it was actually making progress with normie liberals. (especially with the way social media works and how Trump's tweets spread on Twitter and the people dunking on him, pretty easy to see how people breaking down why Trump's tweets were "problematic" and the real issue with them was cis straight white male privilege or whatever could actually take hold.) That doesn't happen with Biden obviously and there aren't any other prominent Republicans now who inspire that sort of backlash...Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are just too boring. Similarly Biden doesn't really promote or intentionally further it like someone like Elizabeth Warren might.

If this trend continues and there's no reason to believe it won't, then Republicans will just start to look like weirdos railing against made up issues, like the whole litter boxes in schools thing...that's not taken seriously by swing voters or anyone who isn't a total kool-aid drinker and thus Democrats actually used it to their favor attacking some Republicans who made that claim in 2022. That's likely the future of woke attacks in general.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The fact is that wokeness is on a decline. It's significantly weaker now than it was in 2020 and has now been mostly rolled back to just being something associated with some liberal arts colleges and weirdos on Twitter that normal people ignore.

See, right here is the problem with uncritically adopting meaningless right-wing terminology like "wokeness". What exactly does it mean to assert that "wokeness is on a decline"?

Most specifically note how corporate PR social media accounts rarely performatively use "Latinx" or other such lingo anymore.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Even if the answer is yes, it won't be for much longer.

The fact is that wokeness is on a decline.

Just wait for the natural reactions from left-wing places when the Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action, I'm nearly positive they'll prove this theory that wokeness is on a decline wrong very quickly.

For like two weeks maybe. And even that's not going to cause HR departments and corporate PR to decide that "rxndxm x's in wxrds" is the "proper" way to communicate or make sites like Everyday Feminism or various Breadtube channels even remotely relevant again.

Plus it's really not the same thing because affirmative action long predates modern wokeness. If the Supreme Court issued such a decision in 2003 you would've probably seen similar such reactions despite being long before contemporary "woke culture". The main difference is that thanks to Twitter and other social media the inevitable multitudes of cringe takes will be far more visible than they would've been in 2003.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Another example of how wokeness is on the decline: see how few people wear masks anymore and how mask mandates aren't even a policy with the Overton Window in most places at this point. As I've noted before it was mostly the woke side calling for such continued policies while the "unwoke left" basically just said to get vaccinated and then go back to your life.