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Wokeness as Bold as Trump: Arrested for a Meme, Dead-naming Punishment, Black Bird-watcher Bias

By Selwyn Duke

Legendary president Ronald Reagan authored a “revolution,” seeking to shrink government, lower taxes, reduce regulations, and defeat the Soviet menace. He accomplished much governmentally, too, earning the ire of leftists who dubbed him “Ronald Ray-gun.” Yet in truth, he could do little about our cultural trajectory, and American society was notably more “politically correct” (i.e., Woke 1.0) when he left office in 1989 than when he’d entered it in ’81. It’s an old story: You can change who’s at the government’s helm, but who’s at the cultural “government’s” helm — that of academia, the media, and entertainment — remains the same.

(That is, unless you have an autocratic state playing cultural puppeteer.)

This said, one difference between the Reagan and Trump revolutions is that MAGA apparently has greater cultural focus. Despite this, though, and as during Reagan’s time, wokeness marches on. This is illustrated, too, by some recent stories, ones that in the ’80s would’ve been unheard of — or satire.

Democrats’ “Man” Problem: Trump Is an Alpha, and Liberal Beta Males Can’t Compete

By Selwyn Duke

Democrats have a man problem. And it’s not just because, as Judge Jeanine Pirro informed recently, only 12 percent of liberal women “claim to be completely satisfied with their lives — and it is because all the manly men have flocked to President Trump.” It’s also, on a related note, this:

Democrats have long relied on young voters as part of a winning coalition. They delivered in 2020, too, as Joe Biden won the 18-29 vote by 24 points (59 percent to 35 percent). They broke Democratic in 2024 as well, albeit by a much narrower margin: six points. (Fifty-two percent supported Kamala Harris, 46 percent Donald Trump.)

To the point here, however, the shift among young men — and some other male demographics — was striking. Men 18-29 voted for Biden over Trump in 2020 56 to 41 percent. Yet this was almost precisely reversed in 2024: 56 percent of young men supported Trump; only 42 percent went Harris.

The Left Keeps Underestimating Trump; Meanwhile, the Dems Are “in a Body Bag”

By Selwyn Duke

“They misunderestimated me,” then-President-elect George W. Bush famously said about his political opponents after his 2000 election victory. While it’s perhaps easy underestimating someone so prone to malapropisms and mangling syllables, “Dubya” was right. There’s a lesson there, too — one that, more than a generation later, the Democrats still haven’t learned.

Just consider President Donald Trump. The Left, and the GOP_E, laughed and laughed and laughed at him — and then laughed some more. They’re still laughing. But the laughter has now taken on a crazy, plaintive character, reminiscent of a man in a straitjacket and rubber room rocking back and forth and, amid sobs, breaking out in intermittent, maniacal cachinnation, as he blocks out a reality he cannot accept.

Is THIS the Real Reason the Left Didn’t Steal the 2024 Presidential Election?

By Selwyn Duke

A 2023 poll found that almost 70 percent of Republicans/Republican leaners believed that Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory was illegitimate. Given this cynicism about the process, many Americans expected a replay of the fraud in 2024. Yet that didn’t materialize because, it’s often said, President Donald Trump’s November support made the election “too big to rig.” There is, however, no such thing, says one observer. Moreover, asserts this man, who has spent years studying electoral fraud, there’s a simple reason the Democrats didn’t rig the election:

They didn’t want to.

After Winning a Political Battle Nov. 5, Can We Now Win the Culture War?

By Selwyn Duke

On December 7, 1941, Japan won a victory so resounding at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, that a casual observer might have considered its empire an unstoppable force. Yet the Land of the Rising Sun never had a chance. With an industrial base dwarfed by that of the United States, its eventual defeat was inevitable. This lesson from history is applicable to our time’s cold political/culture conflicts and raises a question.

Patriotic Americans won a convincing political victory November 5, but can they now turn the tide in the culture war?

That depends, says one commentator, on whether they recognize that “cutesy time is over” and start playing for keeps.

Put differently, it hinges on whether we, after striking a blow against the political establishment, continue following the cultural establishment. Can we truly think and act outside the box? Doing so is important for a simple reason:

We’ve been put in that box by the cultural devolutionaries — by the enemy within. It is a box they created.

And, well, we’re in dire need of repackaging.

Town Fined 10K for Not Celebrating “Pride” Month — and Other Foreign Craziness

By Selwyn Duke

With the election of Donald Trump, many Americans are hopeful that so-called wokeness will go the way of the dodo. Yet as recent warnings inform, such cultural change requires, well, a change in the culture (not just the politics). And perhaps helpful in this regard is considering what happens when a civilization continues down the rabbit hole of relativism. We have many such examples, too — they’re called foreign countries.

WARNING: “We Are Still at War”

By Selwyn Duke

The above claim, made just recently, is not about our Ukraine-proxy war with Russia. It’s not about our continuing military actions against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. It’s not about something as mundane as how the U.S. is, technically, still at war with North Korea. Rather, it’s about an ongoing, existential conflict against the most dangerous enemy of all: ourselves.

Or, to be precise, that would be the enemy within — and the good Americans who unwittingly aid that enemy.

Attacking Trump Voters, View Host Mistakes “Schooling” for Education

By Selwyn Duke

“Never let your schooling interfere with your education,” goes the apocryphal saying. (No, it’s not from Mark Twain, though the schooled are more likely than the educated to think so.) It is a truth, too, an important one to grasp — especially for pseudo-elites who demean the unschooled as “uneducated.”

Enter ABC network’s Sunny Hostin. Hostin, who’s never sunny, offered election analysis on a recent episode of The View. Trump’s victory wasn’t attributable to black men’s support, she stated, as almost 80 percent of them voted for Kamala Harris. Rather, the problem was that 47 percent of “Latino” men supported Trump along with, by her lights, benighted white women.

“What we did not have is white women,” she said, “who voted about 52 percent for Donald Trump — uneducated white women is my understanding.”

The Most Important Votes Are Yet to Be Cast

The choices we make in our daily lives shape our culture and the type of country we have. After all, politics is downstream from culture.

By Selwyn Duke

With President Donald Trump’s historic and resounding election victory, many are relieved. His supporters may feel, “Mission accomplished!” while his opponents (those not throwing tantrums) might’ve resigned themselves to reality. There’s a sense that we can breathe easier now, relax, and return to “life as normal.” Yet overlooked is that the most important ballots are yet to be cast. 

What am I talking about? We cast votes every time we buy a product or service, pay for a movie or imbibe other entertainment, watch a news broadcast, purchase a newspaper or view a website, use a search engine, send a child to a school or college, or express a belief. These choices are daily “votes” because they determine what will prevail in our culture. If a news station peddles propaganda, a university destructively indoctrinates youth, a corporation funds perverse agendas, or a Big Tech company nefariously influences our elections, it’s only because too many of us are patronizing it in some way. If the entity’s customers/users disappeared, so would it. If activists are effectively spreading destructive ideas, it’s only because too many of us are tolerating it. In other words, our daily market/social-realm votes serve to shape our culture, and this matters because, as the late Andrew Breitbart famously put it, “Politics is downstream from culture.”

Anti-Trump Artifice: Does the Woke Pentagon Have Sedition on Its Mind?

By Selwyn Duke

It’s not quite like the 1964 movie Seven Days in May, which concerns a military plot to overthrow a U.S. president. Nonetheless, there does appear to be an anti-Trump cabal in the Pentagon with seditious leanings. What’s more, this information doesn’t come via social media rumor or some random source, but from left-wing CNN. This suggests, states commentator Andrea Widburg,

that something is deeply wrong in the Pentagon — the same Pentagon that “forgot” to send absentee ballots to U.S. troops serving overseas, a gross violation of their civil rights, and one that ought to result in courts-martial all the way up to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

The issue? Pentagon officials are conspiring to finds ways to circumvent orders Donald Trump might issue to have the military secure the southern border or help expel illegal aliens from our country. Apparently, the Pentagon believes its role is only to protect other nations’ borders; e.g., Ukraine’s.