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Journalist Michael Shellenberger has gone viral for trying to explain to the stubborn left why they just lost so badly.

In a video posted to Twitter/X on Wednesday, he pointed directly at the left’s constant smearing of any and all dissenters as racists, bigots, fascists, misogynists, fascists, Nazis, etc.

Listen:

“We didn’t appreciate being told we were bigots for not wanting to defund the police, open the borders, or mandate racial quotas,” Shellenberger said. “We didn’t enjoy being called phobic for not wanting doctors to experiment on children with pseudoscientific ‘transgender medicine.’”

“And we didn’t like being labeled conspiracy theorists for asking questions about Covid policies or asking why the FBI, CIA, and Department of Homeland Security were involved in mass censorship,” he added.

While these weren’t the only reasons a majority of Americans voted for President-elect Donald Trump, they played an important role, Shellenberger argued, especially in pushing disaffected liberals into the arms of the Republican Party.

“[W]hat made the difference between 2020 and 2024 was the defection of so many traditionally Democratic voters to Trump and the Republicans,” he explained. “And many of those who defected were, like us, alienated by the transformation of the Democratic Party into a mob of Woke scolds and persecutors.”

“Trump gained unprecedented ground across the electorate, disrupting Democrats’ hold on black, Latino, and Muslim voters in key areas. Even young people, and especially young men, swung to the right. Trump won over large segments of the working class, while Harris improved over Joe Biden with high-income voters, college-educated white women, and white people in general,” he added.

These results, Shellenberger continued, once and for all disprove the narrative that Trump’s support is driven by white supremacy or fascism or whatever other made-up nonsense. If anything, it’s driven by a desire to see a final end to the totalitarian scourge known as wokeism.

“Wokeism or whatever else you want to call it — progressivism, identity politics, radical leftism — has been rampaging through society for roughly the last decade, and those of us who have been stigmatized and ostracized by it feel like we can finally breathe again,” he said.

“Many of us who have felt persecuted for our views, even in supposedly small ways, such as not feeling comfortable expressing our true feelings with friends and family, feel freer now to speak our minds. After all, the majority is with us. Our views are normal, mainstream, and common sense,” he added.

Exactly. Despite the left’s incessant claims that its detractors are this, that, and the other, including “weird,” the truth has always been that leftists are the true weirdos.

But how did they become this weird and totalitarian? It started in the early 2010s, according to Shellenberger.

“Sometime between Occupy Wall Street in 2011 and the first Black Lives Matter protest in 2013, seemingly normal liberals and Democrats started to lose their minds,” he explained. “Everything became racist. Everything became suspicious. And nothing was more suspicious than not agreeing 100% with the official Woke Democratic agenda.”

“Trump’s election put Wokeism on steroids. Suddenly, a word that, in the past, only extreme radical Leftists had used to describe a Republican president — ‘fascist’ — was now being used by Very Serious People like New York Times columnists, establishment Democrats, and the previously sober foreign policy establishment,”  he added.

Then between 2016 and 2020, wokeism grew even further, tightening “its grip on every major institution in society, from news and entertainment media to schools and universities,” creating the “Great Awokening.”

It was a witch hunt, Shellenberger maintains, that made otherwise ordinary people turn into mean, cruel wokescolds.

“Diverging from progressive orthodoxy in any way became enough for people to not only end friendships, but to insist that the transgressors be ostracized and excommunicated,” he noted. “Those who had made a great show of being courageously open-minded and tolerant became intolerant, incurious, and cowardly.”

The good news, according to Shellenberger, is that the madness is beginning to recede. The bad news, of course, is that the battle isn’t over quite yet.

“The bad news is that much of the Censorship Industrial Complex remains in place, few of the abuses of power over the last eight years have been fully investigated, and Wokeism remains entrenched in every major societal institution,” he said.

“The good news is that we understand the work we have in front of us. We must defund the thought police; investigate the abuses of power by the FBI, CIA, and DHS; replace IC leaders and reform the agencies; de-Wokeify and reform public institutions; and get some accountability for all of the awful consequences of the last ten years,” he concluded.

Vivek Saxena
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