Adherence to traditional cultural and moral values is an important part of any conservative party’s identity almost by definition. It would be unreasonable, therefore, to expect the GOP to go soft on wokeness. That does not, however, mean that the party’s current stance on culture wars is acceptable.
Today’s Republicans don’t just put their cultural ideas front and center; they demonize anyone who doesn’t agree them. They identify the left as an existential threat that needs to be completely crushed, by illiberal means if necessary. They even embrace ruthless, despotic foreign leaders who despise liberal democracy as long as they position themselves as allies in the supposed universal war on wokeness.
That has to stop. Period.