Progressive Wokeness Is at the Heart of Today’s Problems, by Auguste Meyrat

By Auguste Meyrat, Crisis Magazine, Oct. 24, 2022

Auguste Meyrat is an English teacher and department chair in north Texas. He has a BA in Arts and Humanities from University of Texas at Dallas and an MA in Humanities from the University of Dallas.

Recently, former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard publicly announced her departure from the Democratic party. She lamented that instead of creating a government “by the people and for the people,” Democrats are led by elitists who serve themselves. She also remarked on how Democrats have attacked essential freedoms and have pushed the country to the brink of nuclear war.

What makes Gabbard’s speech significant is not so much her decision to move away from her own party—though, as Ben Domenech observes, she deserves a great deal of credit for this—but how it highlights many of the key concerns for most Americans on both sides of the political divide, few of which are explicitly partisan.  ….

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