“Woke?” “Cancel culture?” “Identity politics?” The right's reliance on empty rhetoric is getting ridiculous

If right-wing media have legitimate arguments to be made in opposition to Democratic policy proposals, they’re not doing a very good job of articulating what those arguments are. Thankfully, they have a grab bag of buzzwords to fall back on.

Fox News’ Rachel Campos-Duffy dug deep into that bag for the April 1 edition of Fox News Primetime, with a rambling monologue bemoaning that “critical race theory and gender ideology have infected nearly every institution in America.”

Campos-Duffy accused progressives of “ruthlessly conquering cultural territory” in an attempt to...