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A noun, a verb, and woke

Seriously, comparing the fight against Target selling tuck swimsuits and Churchill’s fight against the Nazis is beyond cringe. It’s grotesquely stupid.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters on Saturday that “woke is an existential threat to our society.”

DeSantis, greeting Republican activists at a major GOP 2024 presidential cattle call in Iowa, the state whose caucuses lead off the Republican White House nominating calendar, was asked about comments former President Donald Trump made two days earlier.

“I don’t like the term ‘woke’ because I hear ‘woke, woke, woke.’ It’s just a term they use, half the people can’t even define it, they don’t know what it is,” the former president said on Thursday during remarks at the Westside Conservative Club in Urbandale, Iowa.

Asked about Trump’s comments, the Florida governor said Saturday that “to say it’s not a big deal, that just shows you don’t understand what a lot of these issues are right now.”

I dunno. Right wingers are consumed with pedophile conspiracy theories and gay panic but DeSantis may be making the Giuliani error:

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