The Bizarro World of MTG, Tucker, Candace, and the Woke Right
David Strom 2:00 PM | December 11, 2025
It took me months to understand the whole concept of "woke right," and, to be honest, I still dislike the description because it takes so long to grasp.
While I basically agree with James Lindsey's arguments, it's a branding fail. Memes should be intuitive, IMHO.
So what IS the woke right, and why would I put Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, and Andrew Tate in that category, along with others?
"Woke" is not so much an ideology in itself, although it is easy to think so since it has been so long associated with leftism and Cultural Marxism. Woke is, instead, a type of thinking that draws on Critical Theory, using the redefinition of words and concepts that appeal to people (compassion, science, patriotism, kindness, or whatever floats your boat) and redefining them in ways that weaponize them against the prevailing culture, or the cultural group at which your assault is aimed.
Woke, in other words, is weaponized memes. (A meme is a spreadable idea, not just a funny photo with an edge.)
Meme: an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture
"Silence is violence" is a meme. "Microaggressions" is a meme. "The Jewish conspiracy" is a meme.
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