Actually, there is no such thing as Woke One, and it would be almost impossible to define such a time, era, or set of positions. And even if you try to define Woke One, much of what happened was crazy—crazy awesome. If Ocasio-Cortez wants to be elected president in 2028 (and it really seems like she’s running), perhaps she has to distance herself from whatever she thinks people understand Woke One to be. But her comments underscore an important duality: We need a strong progressive movement pushing progressive ideas, including some that are essential but not yet popular; and also progressive politicians focused largely on popular ideas so that they can win elections and power. And those are separate tasks not accomplished by the same people.
Then, conservatives and even some on the center-left and left in the early 2020s started using the word to mock what they felt were performative or over-the-top displays of racial or gender politics. There is no universal definition of woke. That makes it a useful term for politicians (who are often trying to be cryptic and vague), but not for journalists, academics, and others (who are in theory attempting to offer clarity and precision.)
“Crazy” of course might be an apt word for both of those kinds of wokeness. Canceling Thanksgiving wouldn’t matter 364 days a year but would still annoy people. Police abolition is big and sweeping. Hong was once for both, which is why some Democrats are so wary of her being the party’s candidate in Wisconsin.
Also, while centrist Democrats often cast the movements and language of this era as some kind of electoral dead weight, the fact is that the party had some of its best election performances in recent memory in 2018 and 2020.
But I get why she’s doing it. Ocasio-Cortez, Hong, Abdul El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani, and many leftist politicians have backed away from their comments and stances in 2020, particularly around policing and racism. That makes sense. Many of these politicians either weren’t in office or were representing very left-wing areas back then. Now, they are seeking to be mayor, governor, senator, and perhaps president. Much of what they said in 2020 won’t appeal to white swing voters (“police exist to uphold white supremacy,” said Hong) or much of anyone beyond super-progressives (abolishing police).
The problem is that this strategy means that many of our leading progressive politicians aren’t talking much about immigration, policing, higher education, or other issues where conservatives are taking the country decidedly to the right. We need a balance here. Even if progressive politicians trying to woo swing voters concentrate on economic issues, the broader left can’t abandon these other causes. Progressive groups and people not running statewide or nationally must still address them.
That’s not Ocasio-Cortez’s role though, particularly if she’s going to run for Senate or president. Her role in the progressive movement is principally to win votes. But she shouldn’t undermine progressive goals and movements by implying they are crazy. The congresswoman might want to remember the words of the civil rights leader Ella Baker, who purportedly said back then, “Martin didn’t make the movement, the movement made Martin.” It is hard to imagine a Mayor Mamdani, a Senate nominee El-Sayed, or a viable presidential candidate Ocasio-Cortez without the various movements of 2014-2020, akin to how Martin Luther King, Jr is a historic figure only because tens of thousands of people marched in Washington and other places alongside him.
Woke 1.0 had its successes and failures, just as the congresswoman did in her earlier days on Capitol Hill. She wasn’t crazy then, and neither were the activists who were trying to change America then and now.
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