Pete Hegseth, the least qualified secretary of defense, saying the era of DEI is over, shows the whole anti-DEI or anti-woke campaign is a fraud.
"woke" "woke" "woke' "DEI" "DEI" "DEI" 24/7 from MAGA...
When Trump won the 2024 election, MAGA media were all
screaming, “Woke is dead.” A hilarious statement since neither Kamala Harris nor the Democrats ran on woke issues. If anything, they ran away from it. Tim Walz was doing everything he could to show the Americans that yes, he is a modern man, but he also loves fishing and football. On the other hand, Trump and MAGA media couldn’t stop talking about woke or DEI. The Trump campaign spent around 215 million dollars on trans ads alone. That’s an extraordinary amount. They tied the trans ad to the economy. with this being the ending: "Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you." It's effective because the biggest issue was inflation and the cost of living. The ad was effectively saying Kamala and the Democrats are too busy with helping trans people to help the rest of America. Of course this is nonsense, as we know Democrats were not talking about this issue.
“Woke is dead.” If Democrats never talk about trans people ever again, at the next election the Republican leader will still talk about it like it's the most alive thing on the planet. It's pure politics. If I were to be honest, I think Trump doesn’t care one way or the other about trans people. Like he doesn’t care about religion, but he will cynically use it to win an election at any cost, including harming a vulnerable community that makes up a very small percentage of the population. But based on the coverage by MAGA media, you would think trans people were the majority.
During the election he used another vulnerable community to rile up his base: the Haitians. "In Springfield, they are eating the dogs. The people that came in, they are eating the cats. They're eating—they are eating the pets of the people that live there."
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