Matthew Dowd, who is seeking his party's nomination to take on Republican Dan Patrick, announced he came to the realization in the church that today's "wokeness" is simply another term for human decency.
"As I sat in church today I was thinking that if Jesus were here today he would be accused of being woke," he announced on Twitter. "How about we just say it is human decency to treat all with respect and dignity and that it is constitutional to say all men and women are equal."
"Lovely service at church today at Chapel in the Hills in Wimberley," he said in an earlier tweet. "'Let your joy be in your journey, not in some distant goal.' Let us each find joy in meaning and service with compassion and respect for others. It is there that happiness resides."
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Dowd, a former ABC News Political Analyst, was an Adviser to George W. Bush's 2000 Presidential campaign and the Chief Strategist for Bush's 2004 reelection campaign.
Dowd's remarks came after Democratic strategist James Carville sparked the wrath of Progressives for blaming Democrat Terry McAuliffe's loss in Virginia on "stupid wokeness" and the Progressive agenda.
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"What went wrong is stupid wokeness," Carville announced. "Don't just look at Virginia and New Jersey. Look at Long Island, Buffalo, look at Minneapolis, even look at Seattle, Washington. I mean this 'defund the police' lunacy, this takes Abraham Lincoln's name off of schools, people see that. And it really has a suppressive effect all across the country on Democrats. Some of these people need to go to a detox center or something."
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., fired back at Carville, stating that "wokeness" is a term "almost exclusively used by older people these days."
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"And before people disingenuously complain 'woke' is denigrating to older people, it's actually pundits like Carville using terms like 'woke' to insult voters under 45 that's denigrating," she tweeted. "Don't wonder why youth turnout falls when Dems talk about them like this. We need everyone."
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Merriam-Webster added the word ‘woke’ to its dictionary in 2017, defining it as "aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)." The Oxford dictionary adopted it the same year, describing it as "originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice."
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Many Americans regard wokeness as connected to cancel culture, censorship, and Critical Race Theory, which may have played a significant part in the Democrats' recent election defeats in Virginia. Liberal commentator Bill Maher has repeatedly denounced wokeness and canceled culture on his show over the past few months.
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