Josh Hammer for Townhall.Com

Writer and conservative pundit Josh Hammer wrote an opinion piece, The Coalition of the Un-Woke, for this online magazine, posted 4/2/2021. I would like to selectively quote from his article and then comment on his opinions. Let me quote his first paragraph in full: "The metastasis of the 'woke' ideology is the most comprehensive threat facing the American republic. It is appallingly totalitarian, insofar as the woke wield the levers of cancel culture to suppress all dissident speech, root out all wrongthink, and achieve by sheer force an intellectual homogeneity. It is outright racist, insofar as intersectionality and identity politics, to say nothing of vogue concepts such as 'critical race theory' and 'racial equity', overtly discriminate on the basis of race and thus undermine the preeminent American ethos of equal protection under the law." My response: He is bright, articulate, informed, hard-hitting and completely accurate. His alarmism and beating the drums of calling the silent majority to organize, fight back hard and how, and be loud, proud and in their face. The Democrats and Progressives are now a secular, Marxist mass movement, out to wipe out America and the West. They seek one-party Communist rule with open borders to bring in 60 million socialist-loving people of color to make the final conversion to full-on Ameritopia. Leftist reverse-racism against whites, heterosexuals, constitutionalists, conservatives, men, Christians, capitalists, originalists and republicans is a vicious, ugly campaign that we will to our being place in concentration camps, even executed as they wipe out "enemies of the state". Let me quote Hammer further: " . . . the woke ideology has nonetheless become the unifying creed of the American ruling class. That ruling class, which extends from public sector bureaucracies to the Fortune 500 to Silicon Valley . . . has become in recent years to imbibe, promulgate and disseminate the core tenets of wokeness." My response: Other members of the ruling class include college-educated professionals, teachers, professors, clergy and reporters. Let me quote Hammer further: "What's more, that universality often takes the more insidious form of cross-institutional collusion: As Mathew Schmitz put it in a Tablet essay last September, 'Governmental authorities and corporations now coordinate in enforcing the dictates of the new secular progressive faith.' Thus has the woke ideology completed, a la the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci, its long march through the institutions. And let's not mince words This is Marxism. As Israeli political theorist Yoram Hazony carefully outlined in a Quillette essay last August, 'The New Marxists do not use the technical jargon that was devised by the 19th-century Communists.' but 'their politics are based on the Marx's framework of criticizing liberalism.'" My response: Hammer opened my eyes by showing how corporatists and government are collaborating to advance the new progressive faith, like when the tech giants and old media worked to get Biden elected President, helping him steal the election. They are powerful, organized, cunning, and dangerous. The rot runs very deep and wide to the American body politic now. Jordan Peterson and Stephen Hicks warns that Marxism is not dead but was repackaged as postmodernist leftists, similar to what Yoram Hazony is detecting and reporting. Let me quote from Hammer further: "Liberalism--real, actual, Enlightenment liberalism--is increasingly on the defensive in America. Though there remain many right-leaning classical liberals--those who tend to prioritize the free market and individual liberty--the locus of intellectual energy on the grassroots American right now comes from those who question whether our modern societal commitment to values-neutral liberalism has actually succeeded in 'conserving' much of anything. On the left, the traditional 'live and let live' liberalism of John Stuart Mill has been far too reluctant to push back against the woke ideology. Left-liberalism is not quite vanquished yet, but it is on the decline, as evidenced by such developments as the Democratic Party's present infatuations with ending the Senate filibuster and packing the federal courts. So much for 'neutral' proceduralism." My response: Yes modernism, Westernism, Americanism, individualism and capitalism are under severe, damaging attack by Communist revolutionaries out to overthrow us from within. The moderate Democrats, the liberals, run interference and cover for the radical Leftists, and do not condemn so they are emboldened to promote overthrowing our government and entire way of life. Our RINO politicians and conservative intellectual too often are weak, submissive, part of the Swamp, are so jaded and corrupt that they no longer believe in defending, let alone advancing conservative principles. Hammer points to a couple of courageous Leftists that denounce, expose and oppose the woke crowd and their nihilist ideology, but they are too few and too weak to stop the woke mob in its tracks. Hammer wants a Counter-Reformation, a coalition of the organized, powerful, outspoken and effective un-woke, and he is correct about this. Let me quote Hammer: "The solution is for a political coalition of the un-woke . . . so, too, can a coalition of the un-woke be based around a commonality of interests arrayed against a mutually shared, authoritarian foe . . . Either they will dance to the tune of the Marxists and help bring Western democracy to an end, or they will seek to develop a pro-liberty alliance with conservatives . . . The survival of Western civilization, quite literally, depends on it." My response: We need to work together to stymie and stall this Communist mass movement, and work to restore the American Way.