OK, one thought about all this and I've got work to do. The argument from the right about why we need to overthrow liberalism, the election, the constitutional order, install an American Orban, whatever, is that 'Wokeness' is an existential threat to Western Civilization.
But what is the threat from Wokeness supposed to amount to? A lot of it is 'cancel culture' stuff that really bothers conservatives: the Covington teens; people were mean to Brett Kavanaugh; Dr. Seuss; that guy who got fired from Google; de-platforming; statues coming down.
Some of it is cultural stuff that conservatives would themselves like to cancel: "Blues Clues" and the Muppets going all trans-friendly. L'il Nax X. Too many pronouns; the 1619 project; CRT.
A major sore spot: riots in cities in the wake of BLM protests, following the George Floyd killing. State and city governments didn't crack down, crack enough Antifa heads. The media spun protests as 'mostly peaceful' even when there was a lot of serious disorder & violence.
Beyond that there's the 'Big Lie'. Trump was robbed. The election was stolen. Trump was framed for "Russia, Russia, Russia", thus he was deprived of the chance to govern. In general, the MSM is liberal.
We might add: liberals want DC statehood and 'democracy measures', stronger civil rights laws, an end to gerrymandering, and they want voting to be easy, end the filibuster. This is all bad because it would all hurt Republicans.
Am I missing any major category of grievance? Western Civilization is ending because of these bad things?
I might add border control, anti-immigration, anti-globalism. But I'm not really sure whether that is even such a major factor.
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