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Jonah Goldberg: What happened to the Republican war on ‘woke’ — and what we should have learned from it

This isn’t going to be more musing about whether America has reached “peak woke.” But that is part of the story. So let’s start there.

About a decade ago, many on the left embraced the word “woke,” a term with roots in . It originally meant staying awake — that is, “woke” — to the dangers facing the Black community. But in the hands of the broader, and whiter, academic and journalistic left, it soon

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