Left doubles down on wokeness despite national rejection

Leftist elites are reaffirming their commitment to woke orthodoxy despite the nation’s overwhelming rejection of its ideologies.

Jane Fonda: ‘Woke just means you give a damn’

On Sunday, actress Jane Fonda tried to rebrand “woke” as a positive term during her speech at the SAG-AFTRA awards.

“Make no mistake, empathy is not weak or ‘woke.’ And by the way, ‘woke’ just means you give a damn about other people. Back to empathy,” she said to cheers and applause.

Sunny Hostin: Rejecting woke is ‘un-Godly’

The next day, The View host Sunny Hostin made similar remarks in which she accused those who oppose woke culture of being “un-Godly,” “not Christian,” and uncaring.

“I thought about the conversations that you and I have had, Whoopi, so many times about the co-opting of the word ‘woke,'” Hostin told co-host Whoopi Goldberg. “And the fact that the Right somehow has made it a dirty word.”

“To be woke is a word that came out of the African American community and it was about being — acknowledging social justice inequities, acknowledging people’s suffering,” she added. “It’s not a bad thing to care about other people, to care about the sufferings of others, and to act upon it.”

Then Hostin lambasted those who don’t embrace woke orthodoxy.

“And so Whoopi will often tell me, ‘I’ve never been asleep,'” she continued. “And that’s how I feel . . . so it angers me when people are like, ‘This woke stuff gotta go.’ That’s telling me that you don’t care about my lived experience, you don’t care about the oppression of the LGBTQ community, you don’t care about the oppression of the disabled, you don’t care about the oppression of immigrants, you don’t care about your fellow neighbors — and that is un-Godly, that is not Christian.”

Joy Reid: Woke is ‘of God’

TheReidOut host Joy Reid on Sunday similarly suggested that woke culture is Godly. She made the remarks during a tearful appearance on the “Win With Black Women” podcast in which she discussed MSNBC’s decision to cancel her show and doubled down on her radical Left opinions.

“Whether it was the Black Lives Matter issues of a young baby or a mom or dad that was killed, or when we opened up people’s eyes to the fact that Asian Americans were being targeted and not just black folks,” she said. “That—or went hard for immigrants who’ve done nothing but come to this country like my parents did and try to make a life and defended them.”

“Or whether we’ve talked about what the president is doing that is subversive to the Constitution, that is injurious to our liberty, you know, defending books that people find inconvenient, you know, that Nikole Hannah-Jones put into our spirit that we need to understand 1619 as the real founding of this country,” Reid continued.

“Whether it’s talking about any of these issues and, yes, whether it’s talking about Gaza and the fact that we as the American people have a right to object, to have a right to object to little babies being bombed,” she added, ignoring the Israeli babies purposely murdered before, on, and after October 7th. “And where I come down on that is, I’m not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those things because those things are of God.”

Dem donors back away

The Left’s commitment to woke orthodoxy has some Democrat donors backing away, The Hill reported on Monday.

“They want us to spend money, and for what? For no message, no organization, no forward thinking . . . The thing that’s clear to a lot of us is that the party never really learned its lesson in 2016. They worked off the same playbook and the same ineffective strategies and to what end?” said one donor.

“I’ll be blunt here: The Democratic Party is f‑‑‑ing terrible. Plain and simple,” another said. “In fact, it doesn’t get much worse.”