In a sane world, there wouldn’t be any political message. COVID should never have been politicized. Partisans on both sides of the aisle did it, continue to do it — and it’s helping Republicans! Whether one is “woke” on COVID or anything else, do Democrats really think they can win elections by pushing wokeness? A poll this summer found that only a third of American voters consider themselves woke.

The problem is, wokeness is perceived as another form of elitism, and elitism is the Democratic Party’s biggest problem. Democrats have yet to recover from Hillary Clinton calling half of Donald Trump’s supporters “deplorables” in 2016. The reek of that elitist remark persists. Continue Reading →