The Specter of the “Woke Right” There is an aspect of the “woke Right” accusation that is inherently parasitic. With the Right having successfully stigmatized “wokeness”—most voters now realize it’s insane and dangerous—liberals are now attempting to apply that term to the Right, claiming that its critique of the Left has gone too far. Indeed, we must say to the disaffected liberals who denigrate the “woke Right”—liberals who were mugged by reality, but evidently not brutally enough for them to become fully sensible—that they are not allowed to police us in either tone or substance, They are welcome to join us as allies on the issues we agree on. But liberals do not get to define actual conservatism as the so-called “woke Right,” nor do they get to contain it to suit their own fundamentally liberal pieties. https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-specter-of-the-woke-right/