[HE gush rant, posted this morning, in “Joe Apparently on Last Legs” thread]
MAGA ardor was partially created by an open border plus inflation concerns during the Biden presidency, but it was intensified by general, across-the-board, foam-at-the-mouth woke insanity. And I don’t want to hear one single scolding comment from Bobby Peru…not one!
Biden-era “woke insanity” meant (a) identity issues taking precedence over bread-and-butter issues, (b) the smothering of cinematic art by way of woke ideology and “presentism” in casting, (c) the dominance of race, gender & sexuality over damn near everything, (d) career assassinations by way of #MeToo-driven cancel culture, (e) drag performers in elementary schools, (f) general divisiveness between woke elites and average Joes & Janes, (g) general anti-white-male sentiments in films and within urban media culture, (h) “defund the police”, (i) equity over meritocracy, (j) Young kids indoctrinated with trans ideology teachings & generally encouraged to regard their sexuality as fluid non-binary, (k) cancelling Abraham Lincoln, (l) mass hip-hop hoodie shopliftings in department stores, (m) The metaphor of homeless sociopaths shitting on the streets of San Francisco, (n) educators advocating for gender transitions among minors without parental involvement, (o) Lily Gladstone’s identity-driven Best Actress campaign, (p) Justin Chang trashing “The Holdovers” because of that “Mr. Moto” scene, (q) pregnant men, (r) that drag queen “Last Supper” tableau at Paris Olympics…all of this crap and more.
I’m sorry to note that Trump was re-elected in ‘24 by exploiting resentment over inflation and unchecked immigration and over the plague of French terror wokeness & by generally fanning the flames. I voted for Hillary, Joe & Kamala. Yes, Trump has certainly turned off tens of millions since 1.20.25 and Repubs will surely suffer steep losses in the ‘26 midterms and hallelujah for that, but myopic MAGA sentiments aren’t wrong on every single issue. (Most or many but not all.)
Sleepy Joe Biden, who will sadly not be with us for too much longer, brought about his own destruction and the wokeys surely triggered Trump’s victory over Kamala. Wokesters were the social provocateurs who ushered in the Trump horror. Condemn Trump for his general mafia corruption, criminality and authoritarianism, of course, but he wouldn’t have been re-elected without the bleeding wokeys.