Ezra Klein, founder and former editor in chief of Vox, is a prominent N.Y. Times opinion columnist and podcaster. His basic political-philosophical inclination is left-progressive. He’s certainly not a moderate or a “sensible centrist” in the HE mode — he’s an effing lefty. So it’s highly significant, I feel, that he included the following paragraph in a 4.12.26 essay called “Why There Is No Liberal Joe Rogan“:
HE translation: The woke cancel-culture brigade, which, during the height of woke lunacy (2018-2024), was primarily driven by the white-male-hating punishment instincts of urban Millennial and Zoomer women along with generally supportive sentiments from the trans community, wealthy suburban liberals and kowtowing corporate culture, has all but ruined the Democratic party brand.
Election-wise, 2024-wise amd Kamala Harris-wise in particular, wokeys have become the bane of Democrats’ existence. Many of them have been turning down the gas flame since the woke thing began to lose steam a couple of years ago, but the sooner these maniacs can be expelled from the Democratic community altogether, the better it’ll be all around. Joe Schmoe thinks they’re electoral poison, and so do I.
