How do Democrats harness #DarkWoke? | Peter Rothpletz

Democrats' current approach to political messaging is broken - and party leaders have no conception of how to fix it

As Donald Trump stood in the Capitol Rotunda last week, blundering his way through his second oath of office, online liberals were preoccupied with debating another matter: who will be the first Democrat to call Republicans the R-word? Setting aside the question of whether they should a term widely considered an ableist slur, that very debate was revealing, for a number of reasons.

The former and now current president's narrow but nonetheless triumphant victory in November made clear that America's so-called wokeness movement" is in an advanced stage of decay. And if Trump's first week back in the White House serves as any indication, he intends to further accelerate the process.

Peter Rothpletz is a freelance writer