![]() “If they’re talking about a culture war and woke, then you’re not paying attention to the fact that your rights and your freedom to make your health care decisions as a woman are being taken away,” Robertson said, referencing pushes for more restrictive abortion laws in a number of states. Previewing the event on Friday, South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Trav Robertson called the push by the “MAGA agenda” a “dog whistle” to some. Tulsi Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party last year, said her former party is being “driven by this motivation of cowardly wokeness" and has leaders who “advocate for the mutilation of children in the name of so called gender affirming care.” Mike Rogers, who told The Associated Press he would determine if he would seek the 2024 GOP presidential nomination by late spring or early summer - said “woke”-minded Washington politicians “are crushing the spirt of American educators and entrepreneurs and the American spirit."įormer Rep. who think our kids should be able to change genders at recess.”įormer Michigan Rep. people who hate George Washington, hate Thomas Jefferson. The American people do not deserve to be governed by deeply woke. “I think that’s why 75% of this country think the country is on the wrong track.” Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said of Washington Democrats. "Woke is their favorite word, woke-ism is their favorite activity & they adhere to DEI and ESG like it’s a religion,” Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told attendees, referencing transgender student athletes. ![]() If you’re Black or brown, you are the victim.” “The radical left is trying to get people hooked on victimhood,” Scott said Saturday in North Charleston, adding that, according to Democrats, “if you’re white you must be an oppressor. In a 2021 op-ed, Scott wrote that, due to his status as the Senate’s sole Black Republican, he had long endured critique from “woke folk” because “my ideology does not match that which they prescribe based on my complexion.” Tim Scott, yet to announce his own 2024 bid but in attendance Saturday, has been making for years. It's a similar vein of messaging that South Carolina Sen. “We will shut down the FBI and create something new from scratch to take its place,” he said, to big applause. ![]() On Saturday, Ramaswamy called “woke” a “cultural cancer” in America, saying that, as president, he would advocate for starting over with agencies that “have become a cancerous rot.” Leaving his biotech company following pressures for him “make a statement in favor of the Black Lives Matter movement,” Ramaswamy called at CPAC for “an opportunity for the conservative movement to rise to the occasion and fill that void with a vision of American national identity that runs so deep that it dilutes this woke poison to irrelevance." He later launched his own firm intended to pressure companies to quit ESG initiatives. At the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this month, she said that “wokeness is a virus more dangerous than any pandemic, hands down.” On Saturday, Haley called transgender students competing in sports “the women’s issue of our time," adding: “If we don’t stop all this woke ideology that’s happening in our schools, we will lose them.”įor Ramaswamy, being “anti-woke” is central to his political brand. Haley has adopted “strong and proud, not weak and woke” on yard signs, shirts and campaign stickers. Critics say the efforts are the latest example of the world trying to get “woke,” allocating money based on political agendas, like a drive against climate change, rather than on earning the best returns for savers.ĭeSantis wasn't on stage in South Carolina, but Ramaswamy and Haley were. On Thursday, 19 Republican governors, including DeSantis and South Dakota's Kristi Noem, another possible 2024 contender, signed a letter opposing the Biden administration's support of a federal labor rule allowing retirement plans to consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors when making investment decisions. The debate has spilled over into the finance space, too. Ramaswamy, who entered the race this month, wrote a book on the topic, particularly as it pertains to business: “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam.” ![]() The catch-all label of “woke” is taking on a leading a role within the burgeoning GOP presidential contest, with candidate-in-waiting Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, emerging as a fierce opponent of policies designed to ensure equity when it comes to race, gender and public health.
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