Tyler Austin Harper

I'm being told what to do and how to behave.

And I think there's a real profound nostalgia for that common ethic, common language, common way of thinking, speaking, and talking.

And I think until folks on the left side of the aisle come up with a sort of successor to wokeness, we're going to be kind of in a cultural vacuum.

I am certainly no supporter of the right.

But one thing you can say for conservatives and for MAGA, it is very clear that

These are our friends.

These are our enemies.

These are the words we use.

These are the words we don't use, etc.

Right.

It's kind of the mirror image.

And I think one of the reasons, you know, the left has been floundering a bit since wokeness has been in decline is that they don't really have a sweeping image.

cultural vision for the country and the way that they did during the woke years.

And until I think they, you know, can put forward once again, an image of like, if you are on the left, if you're a liberal, this is what a good life means, right?

This is a good way to live, which they had in 2020.

I think they're still going to be out in the sort of cultural wilderness event.

You know, and I think to the extent that they are ascending again, I think it's going to be largely because of the collapse of MAGA than it is about having found a new a new vision to cling to.

But I think that's what the fight is about right now within the Democratic Party and liberal institutions.

Right.

Like what is if not woke 2.0, but like what is the new cultural rubric we're going to rally behind?