The 'Woke Right' Is the Left's Mistake Repeated | Opinion

There's a cancer growing on the right—a small but loud faction I call the "woke right."

They scream hate and call it courage. They mistake shock value for strength. And if we're not careful, they'll do to our movement exactly what the Squad did to the left.

The left's radical takeover didn't happen overnight. A decade ago, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Squad were dismissed as a handful of fringe voices—too extreme to be taken seriously. But their party didn't disavow them. Instead, they looked the other way. They called them "energizing," "bold," "the future." Now that fringe has become the base of the Democratic Party, and that movement elected a socialist to run America's largest city...