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Unfit to Print: WHAT THE HELL IS WOKE 2?

What was it, exactly, that was wrong with Woke 1?

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Amber Duke
Aug 11, 2026
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Hey y’all, welcome back to Unfit to Print.

This will be the only edition of the newsletter this week, as I’m going on vacation for a few days.


WHAT THE HELL IS WOKE 2?

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez copped to something conservatives have been saying for years: woke got a little crazy.

But AOC admitted something else important: apparently the excesses of the progressive cultural movement around 2020 were only “Woke 1.”

Sorry, there’s a Woke 2?!

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