Anti-wokeness - serious, substantive approaches to fighting the dominance of critical race and gender theory in our institutions, not meaningless performative stunts and virtue signaling - should be a core organizing principle of the GOP’s policy agenda.

It should also be a non-negotiable priority for any politician who aspires to hold positions of power in the GOP. Outside of governors in deep-blue states, no Republican should be allowed to invoke Asa Hutchinson-esque platitudes about the “culture war” to justify capitulation.

We can’t be a “big tent” party on issues like the coordinated radicalization of an entire generation of children; not when the stakes are this existentially high, and not when the vast majority of Americans outside of the managerial elite are decisively with us on this issue.

If the GOP actually invested time and energy in articulating what’s happening in our elite institutions to the American people, anti-wokeness would be an 80/20 issue. We need to learn how to tell that story in a way that communicates why it affects the lives of everyday Americans

Right now, Republican anti-woke discourse is a lot of really cringe boomer-pandering. We’re not developing the message to appeal to a broader audience than our immediate base. This is an issue that can and should expand our coalition - but we need to start treating it that way!