Woke America needs new heroes

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It is fair to judge a political constituency based on the leaders it anoints. And if we take a critical glance at those who woke liberals have chosen to lionize in recent years, it produces a stunning indictment of their movement.

Recent events confirm as much. In a move symbolic of the sentiment shared by most of the liberal media, the left-leaning Time magazine declared the 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg their “Person of the Year.” So, too, the angry leftist lesbian and soccer star Megan Rapinoe has burst to life as a resistance favorite this year, earning liberal media fanfare such as a fawning profile in the Washington Post, Glamour magazine’s “woman of the year” award, and most recently, Sports Illustrated’s “sportsperson of the year” (notice the deliberate gender neutrality), too.

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