There is plenty of wokeness out there if you know where to look for it. It’s on Twitter, in a variety of periodicals, and even occasionally in the NYT. Some of it is as objectionable as the far right says it is.
But the average farmer in Nebraska doesn’t go out looking for it. Nobody in his path during the day embodies it. No one he meets reminds him that the haughty coastal elites look down on him and his values, or says that gender is a fluid concept, or calls him a bigot. He doesn’t even know any trans people or illegal immigrants. So why does he feel so passionately on these subjects?
Because reactionary activists, mostly from urban areas, post about them and they are broadcast 24/7 on Fox News. The outrage machine makes him angry and profits from it. The rest of us, and our liberal democratic system, are the losers.