Thread by @DrewHolden360

This is the sort of take, dripping with condescension, that serves as a reminder that lots of columnists don't spend time outside of their political bubbles.

The focus on "wokeness" is so prevalant because it resonates with everyday Americans. People, broadly, think it's bs.

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1390155867228708865

I wrote about the phenomena a while back: foxnews.com/opinion/fighti…

This is what WaPo opinion has become: "...it is now the term for tagging Democrats. It’s like calling them ugly. Or stupid. Or uncultured. Of course, once the GOP and its largely White-male membership co-opts a popular term, one may presume its cultural power is about to fade."

Not only is it dumb and insulting - in a lowbrow sort of way - but it also just isn't true, as NYT reported just this week: nytimes.com/2021/05/04/us/…

just asinine:
"This GOP, which is nothing like the storied Republicans who raised these three so-called traitors, just is not being very smart right now. By trying to shut down or marginalize people such as Romney and Cheney, it may soon fulfill Bush’s prophecy of extinction."

@PostOpinions's commentary on the current GOP is essentially Parker, Max Boot, and Jen Rubin sneering about how terrible the party has become and how the party's death is right around the corner.

It's hard to overstate how insular and foolish this perspective is.

I could share a zillion stories about why the GOP is ascendant (and have been meaning to write about it, maybe WaPo will be interested!) but here's just a few:

fivethirtyeight.com/features/repub…
npr.org/2020/11/11/933…
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
apnews.com/article/electi…

but the sort of haughty, ivory tower, insular takes that @PostOpinions keeps churning out are precisely what you would expect when the only voices are left-leaning (out of either belief or necessesity). its a disservice to their readership.