The campaign against 'woke' functions as a coordinated effort to reinstate the violence and social order of slavery and white dominance. Elements within the MAGA resurgence display Confederate emblems, advocate trad-wife roles, and support disenfranchisement of women while pushing school curricula to reflect slaveholder narratives. Actions include restoring racially charged monuments and promoting media that sanitizes colonial and slave-era brutality. The movement's public displays, policy proposals, and cultural projects indicate an organized drive to normalize and institutionalize racial hierarchy and nostalgic Confederate ideology across civic institutions.
Eight months ago, if you said that the second coming of MAGA would, in broad daylight, wheel the Confederacy back in, you would have been called an alarmist. It would have seemed like overblown anxieties typical of the antiracist wingnuts or the woke to say that those who sought to make America great again would, like the first MAGA movement, the Redeemers, attempt to re-stage slavery.
Eight months ago, it would have been unreasonable to assume that just because MAGA featured men and women waving the Confederate battle flag in a mob swarming the Capitol, who were interested in trad wives and the disenfranchisement of women, and sought to ensure textbooks repeat the slaveholder's narrative that the people they enslaved enjoyed their enslavement, there were significant elements in the movement interested in a return to plantation life.
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