Democrats should embrace being woke and make 2022 about GOP's extremism

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“Some in the GOP are waging a coordinated effort to impose their radical, right-wing beliefs upon Americans. The Democrats should make the 2022 election a referendum on the GOP's extremism,” writes @DeanObeidallah

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Some in the GOP are waging a coordinated effort to impose their radical, right-wing beliefs upon Americans, Dean Obeidallah writes. The Democrats should make the 2022 election a referendum on the...
4:38 PM · Apr 24, 2022

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/24/opinions/democrats-gop-2022-election-obeidallah/index.html


(CNN)Some in today's Republican Party are trying to ban abortion, books they find objectionable, Black history from being taught fully, transgender teens from playing sports, and discussions of sexual orientation in schools, and now they're even going after Mickey Mouse.

Yet Democrats say they plan to make the 2022 election about "kitchen table issues." At this rate, Republicans may seek to ban kitchen tables -- or at least punish companies that make them if they espouse what the GOP calls wokeness.

The incumbent President's party traditionally loses congressional seats in the midterm elections. But 2022 is unique. Some in the GOP are waging a coordinated effort to impose their radical, right-wing beliefs upon Americans. The Democrats should make the 2022 election a referendum on the GOP's extremism.

On Friday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law to punish Disney for daring to speak out in opposition to the GOP's recently enacted anti-LGBT legislation that critics dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" law. DeSantis has taken a page from the playbook of people such as Russian President Vladimir Putin by using state action to punish corporations that dare defy him.

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[msongs]

1. dems preach love, repubs preach hate. love is a good message to run on nt

[cilla4progress]

2. I'm there.

Very psyched!!

[uponit7771]

3. K&R, GZP appropriates terms from black community to demonize awareness of their shiftiness

[bucolic_frolic]

4. We can't take this lying down and wait for people to realize what's going down

We have to educate, energize, arouse people to oppose GOP fascism

[Mad_Machine76]

5. I agree

It’s the Republican agenda that is actually unpopular.

[MissMillie]

6. I was thinking about "woke" being a badge of honor

like "liberal"


Of course, to me, "woke" means empathetic, sort of. So, yeah, I'd wear that badge.

[Doodley]

7. The word Woke is too hard for Republicans to grasp. They know it is

an insult and something that is bad to them, like Socialist. It's like "Fair Tax." It's got the word fair in it. and it is propagated by Republicans, so it much be fair, even if it actually means most of them will pay more tax. Too hard to educate them to understand.