Brooks: The right can rest easy: Wokeness won't last
May 15, 2021
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A couple shops at Whole Foods in San Francisco. In the 1960s, left-wing radicals wanted to overthrow capitalism. We ended up with Whole Foods. A similar co-optation of wokeness seems to be happening right now.Gabrielle Lurie /The Chronicle
My friend Rod Dreher recently had a blog post for the American Conservative called “Why Are Conservatives in Despair?” He explained that conservatives are in despair because a hostile ideology — wokeness or social justice or critical race theory — is sweeping across America the way Bolshevism swept across the Russian Empire before the October Revolution in 1917.