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BY Jude Cramer

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According to social media, this week’s midterms are ushering in a new era: Woke 3.0.

For the uninitiated, the internet has broken down the dynamics of American politics in the 2020s into a few distinct eras. There was Woke 1.0 at the start of the decade, associated with far-left social movements of the time. As the country leaned toward conservatism in the mid-2020s, online denizens argued that Democrats responded by moving into Woke 2.0, a shift that New York City Councilman Chi Ossé defined as “more productive” and less focused on virtue signaling than Woke 1.0.

Now, after the blue tsunami, social media is convinced that a third iteration of Woke might just be upon us.…