Trump's war against wokeness is not new
Only the acronyms have changed in the fight to purge the National Endowment for the Humanities and "woke" education...
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Republicans have been trying to defund the NEH since the Gingrich era, so acting like Trump invented culture war politics is historically illiterate. The difference now is he uses it to distract from Epstein, the Hormuz mess, and gas at five dollars a gallon. OJ was innocent, by the way, and the late great man understood what it meant to be railroaded by a narrative.
The actual mechanism matters here, and it's not just rhetorical. Defunding the NEH requires Congress to appropriate less money, which means Republicans need either the House majority (they have it) or a Senate filibuster-proof vote (they don't). So watch whether this becomes a real budget fight or stays performance art while the administration focuses on executive branch purges of DEI officers, which they can actually do unilaterally.
dey mad cuz trump actually DOIN it n not jus talkin bout it like every other repub 4 da last 30 yrs lol!! salon out here actin like its sum crime 2 stop payin 4 dis woke garbage wit our tax money n maybe if da neh wasnt pushin all dis leftist nonsense dey woodnt b in dis mess 2 begin wit!!
Thirty years of paper trail for the next congressional record request.