

Despite supporting Donald Trump’s bid to be the 2024 Republican candidate for president, conservative commentator and former Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR) praised one of the former president’s Republican opponents for his definition of the term “woke.”
“Not sure his Presidential campaign will catch fire (I'm a @realDonaldTrump supporter), but @VivekGRamaswamy is an important and much needed voice in our culture & he's worth a listen,” Huckabee tweeted Monday, including a video clip of Vivek Ramaswamy.
In the video, Ramaswamy dispels claims by liberal media and Democrats that conservatives can’t define “woke,” even though they say they oppose it.
“The new popular talking point of the American Left is that conservatives don’t know how to define the word ‘woke.’ Well, let me give them what they ask for,” Ramaswamy says.
He, then, provides a definition of “woke,” describing it as a belief in “an invisible power structure” based on identity politics:
“It means you believe that your identity is based on your race, your gender and your sexual orientation. And, that there’s an invisible power structure in the laws of nature that say that, if you’re white, you’re straight, and you’re cis and you’re male, then you’re at the top of that hierarchy. And, if you aren’t one of those things, then you’re on the bottom of that hierarchy.
“That there’s an invisible relationship between those oppressors and those who they oppress – and that’s how human relationships work.
“That’s what it means to be woke.”
What’s more, those who are woke believe they can and should use any means necessary - no matter how ruthless - to achieve their goals, Ramaswamy warns:
“Further, it means you also believe that you need to correct for that hierarchy, that you need to solve it – by using any means necessary, not just political power, but economic power and cultural power to correct for those invisible societal injustices.”
“That’s not just my definition. That’s the definition used by people who were proponents of the woke movement just a decade ago,” the Republican presidential hopeful says.
And, while woke ideology rejects the concept of the individual and replaces free speech and meritocracy with a culture of fear, “The worst part of all this is that it divides us,” Ramaswamy says.