Source: Law & Liberty
by John G Grove
“[T]here are significant problems with pretending ‘woke right’ is an unambiguous category. There is, however, an interesting angle to the discourse that makes it worth pursuing. When applied to the left, ‘woke’ has always evoked something beyond a set of political preferences, aims, or tactics. At its peak, at least, wokeness seemed to cut to the very being of its adherents. It seemed to define entirely their sense of self and their orientation to the social, ethical, and even spiritual order of the world. Thus, it has often appropriately been seen as having a quasi-religious character. … Is there a similar tendency in pockets of the right? To treat their Cause not just as a worthy endeavor, but as existential? To believe that only in their Cause can they find personal meaning and, indeed, salvation? That was, according to the great political theorist Eric Voegelin, a key quality of modern ideology. ” (06/05/25)