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The identity politics of Woke 1 alienated the ordinary Americans the left once championed.
Their wordsBy demanding the purification of the individual and branding broad swathes of the public as oppressor classes, 'Woke 1' besmirched the average Americans who Democrats once championed.
Our reading
Treating ordinary people as an oppressor class that must repent is incompatible with left populism.
Their wordsThis worldview - that the masses, basically everyone except the most marginalized and most oppressed, must reckon with their roles as oppressors and repent2 - is incompatible with the populism that has since risen on the left.
Their wordsZohran now understands how "defund" is incompatible with a mass movement in a society where the masses want protection by the police.
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