The meaning is clear in context because you know who he's talking about. But you just called this "the best description you've seen", and it's not a description in the least.
I don't care that you disagree with DEI types and with wokeism in general. I have my own qualms! But don't elevate hucksters like Rufo. And stop following him on Twitter. He's a clown.
Correct, and in fact, many Marxists are virulently against CRT/wokeness, because it distracts from class as the central conflict in society.
Critics crudely call CRT/wokeness "Marxist" because it's a conflict perspective.
(I think we agree, just writing it down to clarify my thoughts).
It's interesting that calling CRT "Marxist" gives the Fox News watchers a familiar enemy to fulminate against, and it gives the CRT peddlers themselves unearned credibility as dangerous dissidents, so it's a misidentification that serves everyone but the dwindling number of actual Marxists, and pedants bent on accuracy.
It's an ideology that replaces Marxism's "totalizing class consciousness" with a "totalizing race consciousness."
> Just how much work is the word "neo" doing in that name?
A lot, and the "Marxism" is doing very little. It's a clumsy construction. But the meaning is clear in context.
> "Collapsed mainline Protestantism"? Explain!
It’s a religious revival, but without Jesus. They’re descendants of Puritans who don’t believe the theology anymore, but have the same religious zeal, sense of moral universalism, and faith that America's institutions belong to them. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbbxQqKXUIk (warning: offensive period language). I’ve had several experiences with woke whites where, when I pointed out that the minorities they purport to speak for disagreed with them about this or that, they responded with the same sentiment as Matt Damon in the final line of that clip.