that suicide rates are actually higher among kids who had gone under the gender-transition knife.
STARTS WITH TEACHING Langton believes the experience was a sign that a “silent majority” of parents find that liberalism has waded way too far into their children’s lives and is the driving force behind the volte-face of wokeism in America. Homeschooling trends offer some validation of that. According to the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), as of 2024, there are an estimated 3.7 million children being homeschooled in the U.S. — a million more students than expected in post- COVID-19 times. According to an October 2023 in-
depth report by The Washington Post, homeschooling has increased between 200% and 300% in just the past six years in 24 of New York City’s 33 school districts. While the uptick in homeschooling
is not wholly attributed to a rejection of wokeism in schools, Joshua and Kali Fontanilla’s decision to quit their teaching jobs to start their own “woke- free” homeschool is evidence it’s play- ing a significant role. The faith-based school, located in
another Democrat stronghold — Cali- fornia — grew overnight to an enroll- ment of 180 students. Kali, who is African American, told Newsmax she and her husband open- ly promote it as a counter-curriculum to such liberal teachings as critical race theory.
HIERARCHY OF VICTIMHOOD In echoing Langton’s theory, Kali, who is also a senior fellow at the Capital Research Center, says feedback from parents shows people are catching on to the false promises of woke ideology. Center for American Liberty found-
er and CEO Harmeet Dhillon, a civil rights attorney and prominent figure in the Republican Party, told News- max she chalks the disconnect up to a
“The more they push wokeism and identity politics, the more they push voters toward common-sense solutions
offered by Republicans.” — Harmeet Dhillon, Center for American Liberty founder and CEO
“hierarchy of victimhood” that Demo- crats have skillfully used to dupe party voters. But she also believes politicians
like Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris and running mate Min- nesota Gov. Tim Walz have gone so far overboard and created such a patent root-and-branch hypocrisy that it will cost them the presidential election. “As Americans tire of being told
what to think by elites, this election will prove that voters prioritize safe- ty, economic stability, and freedom over the extreme policies of the Demo- crats,” she said. “The more they push wokeism and
identity politics, the more they push voters toward common-sense solu- tions offered by Republicans.” Fontanilla is not quite as confident. In spite of seeing an increasing shift
toward the right, she is skeptical it will be enough to overcome the prevalence of wokeism among Gen Zers. “They have instilled fear in young
people about the right, so even if they don’t like the Democratic nominee, they vote for them out of fear. We have lost a generation to leftism.”
LOCAL RESISTANCE While Democrats embrace the most liberal presidential ticket in U.S. his- tory, there are signs of resistance at the local level. Thirty-five states have now passed legislation restricting student ath- letes to school sports based on their biological sex. GLADD, the largest LGBTQ+
advocacy group, said the number of “anti-LGBTQ” bills introduced in 2023 was “a record high.” Even in Massachusetts, a sanctu- ary state with extreme abortion rights
laws, there is a glimmer of hope for conservatives that voters are jumping on the woke-weary bandwagon. In a special election, Republican
Peter Durant flipped a state Senate seat long held by a Democrat, and in a district that has long been reliant on taxpayer-funded social services and programs often equated with liberal policies. Durant was elected as a candidate
known to oppose anti-gun legislation and support parental rights legisla- tion, but his main campaign platform was immigration reform. Whether they will admit to it pub-
licly or not, he told Newsmax he believes that even the state’s dyed-in- the-wool Democrats were a bit red- eyed over the $1 billion Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has already spent on housing illegal immigrants in the New England state. More proof of discontent, he points
out, is the exodus of residents from the Bay State — an estimated 150,000 a year. Then there are the residual effects. In August, Anheuser-Busch, the
makers of Bud Light, which has been a corporate fixture in Boston since 1865, announced it was laying off 200 employees. The announcement came on the heels of a layoff of more than 600 workers — with a promise of more job cuts to come — by Japanese bio- pharmaceutical giant Takeda, which has a U.S. operations hub in Cambridge as well as a campus in Lexington. Durant blames the downward
trend on “heavy-handed liberalism.” “I think people just want to get back
to basics; they just want the govern- ment to stay out of their lives and want to be able to go about their busi- ness — and DEI flies in the face of that convention.”
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