It’s great that shrewd U.S. Senator Marco “Gang of Eight” Rubio (R-FL) is giving speeches like “We Need Corporate Patriotism to Defeat American Marxism” (you can read Rubio’s address to the National Conservatism Conference 2021 HERE) these days. It really is. You have to start somewhere (Rubio is 100% right that “the battle against cultural Marxism will not be won by relying on an outdated ‘Wall Street Journal Conservatism’) and the GOP definitely needs to divorce itself from big business, like, yesterday. The thing is, well, China actually isn’t entirely to blame for all of the U.S.’s “woke” woes (China just weaponized our own terrible, greedy elites and their little useful idiot minions against the country). It’s a plan that has worked out so well for the country that even massive multinationals like Netflix (it’s the company’s fault, don’t feel bad for them) is unable to reprimand its employees that protest the company during actual work hours without getting hit with a civil rights lawsuit. That’s “diversity” for ya, baby! Ain’t it grand?!

Meanwhile, Richard Hanania, the very smart President of The Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI), is out here actually identifying the real source of wokeness (read his piece “Woke Institutions is Just Civil Rights Law: Why Conservatives Won’t (and Can’t) Fight for Influence, and What to Do About It”, his follow-up to “Why is Everything Liberal?” and “2016: The Turning Point” HERE) and proposing actual tangible solutions to push back against it. You can sign up for Hanania’s excellent substack newsletter right HERE and watch him explain why wokeness is actually the result of U.S. policy (i.e. anti-discrimination law) HERE.