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The Woke Right’s War on Conservatism

After witnessing the YR chat scandal from the inside, former Secretary Kayla Saunders exposes how cruelty and cowardice have replaced principle in Republican politics.

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Gregory Graf
Oct 21, 2025
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Conservatism is being hollowed out from within because a growing faction has replaced principle with performance. The “new right,” sometimes called the “woke right,” thrives on humiliation, moral inversion, and digital chaos.

Independent research from Graphika, Clemson’s Media Forensics Hub, and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue shows that roughly forty percent of antisemitic and racist posts on X come from bot or inauthentic accounts pretending to be conservatives. These fake “patriots” flood social media with outrage, causing extremism to appear mainstream. Algorithms reward hate because hate keeps people engaged, and that incentive system has created an ecosystem of digital arsonists. The Groypers, Christian nationalists, and “woke-right” pundits have turned online outrage into a political machine.

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