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The greatness of the American myth is that it is mostly real. Enough of the faux-conservatives, these woke rightists, judging America as not worth saving and smearing our heroes as tyrants or war criminals.On December 3, 2024, James Lindsay, rightish provocateur, revealed that he had “very lightly edited” “several thousand words straight out of” the Communist Manifesto and submitted it to the on-line journal American Reformer. He considered it the primary voice of the Christian nationalist “woke right.” Mr. Lindsay, under the pseudonym “Marcus Carlson,” swapped out the term “bourgeoisie” with liberalism, liberals, or “the post-war liberal consensus,” among others.Mr. Lindsay, and others, like Christian apologist Neil Shenvi, had been arguing that there’s a “woke right” which reasons exactly like the wokeknowledge the obvious: the United States ended slavery. Yet we’ve lived, over the last generation, through such an attempted cultural revolution. It’s so increased in ferocity over the last decade, we’ve given it a name: wokeness. It’s the last stage in disillusioning us about our history and culture in hopes we’ll be willing to opt for a new one.