You Betcha Woke Is Becoming Mainstream.

Now that the GOP seems to have formally adopted culture wars as a replacement for their traditional opposition to racial and gender equality, we might want to go back and think about where the culture war strategy first appeared. And it should come as no surprise that the person who is promoting assaults on ‘woke’ culture more than anyone else, happens to be the Governor of the state where this stupid nonsense first appeared.

I’m referring, of course, to Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, whose attacks on Disney, Black History and other woke targets has become this schmuck’s daily attempt to compete with Trump on the alt-right media circuit and maybe get himself positioned for a successful national run in 2024.

In that regard, let’s take a brief trip down Memory Lane and recall the antics of a previous counter-cultural warrior named Anita Bryant who led a noisy, alt-right effort in 1977 to repeal a law in Dade County which basically gave gays, lesbians and transgender people equal rights.

Bryant’s effort fell short, and the law has been reauthorized several times. But what Bryant accomplished was to generate significant anti-gay sentiment on the part of conservatives, particularly Evangelical leaders who then became a fundamental support bloc for the GOP beginning with Reagan in 1980 and continuing right up to today.