Ron DeSantis May Find Fighting ‘Wokeism’ Is No Vote Winner

On top of betting on himself, Ron DeSantis is betting that woke-ism is the defining issue of our time. But can he win two wagers?

“We will wage war on the woke. We will fight the woke in education; we will fight the woke in corporations; we will fight in the halls of Congress. We will never ever surrender to the woke mob,” DeSantis declared recently, channeling Winston Churchill’s “We shall fight on the beaches” speech, delivered eighty-three years earlier, on June 4, 1940.

If that wasn’t on the nose enough, DeSantis’ wife Casey wore a black leather jacket to Iowa last weekend, with a picture of an alligator and the words, “Where Woke Goes to Die.”

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