The right likes to claim that the left is taken over by a “woke mind virus.” But they fail to look in the mirror at their own obsessive attacks on anything in our broader culture that they perceive as tinged with ”wokeness.”

Whether it’s corporations, movies, or beer, the right sees U.S. culture slipping away from them. This attack on “woke” is their sad attempt to cling to a world they feel should rightly be theirs.

But in so doing, often they can’t even agree on what is “woke” and what is “anti-woke.” Or what the terms even mean.

Today in #TheBigPicture, we try to understand conservatives’ growing infatuation with the term and how it developed from merely a word to a representation of the party's severe disconnect from reality. Read more here: thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p…