Trump Is Going Woke. Trump’s right-wing wokeism — impugning electric vehicles and renewable energy because they don’t conform to MAGA ideology and aren’t manly enough — is not remotely in the national interest. It’s not even in the interest of his own base. China is also not so silly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/opinion/deepseek-ai-trump.html

by mafco

23 comments

  1. He refunded the right last time he was in office. This time he will break everything, so they can buy it up and own it all. Good bye family farm, good bye economy based on personal businesses. Welcome 5 corps who own it all completely. He is breaking to buy it cheap.

  2. Do people read these paywalled articles or do they just agree with the sentiment of the word salad title and upvote?

  4. Yea, giving individuals the freedom to buy whatever powertrain they want in a car is so… wait, woke? Whatever. I can’t keep up with what the cool kids say these days, I guess. But if freedom is back in style, yee haw.

  5. Always cute seeing the left try to turn around accusations of being “woke” on the right. No one is buying it.

  6. Burying your head in the sand and not being aware of the ramifications of your actions is not woke… It’s like the opposite…. It’s asleep..

    Sleepy Trump is at it again

  7. >I understand that Donald Trump was elected to better manage our borders and curb left-wing wokeism. But have no illusions: Trump’s right-wing wokeism — impugning electric vehicles and renewable energy because they don’t conform to MAGA ideology and aren’t manly enough — is as devoid of common sense and not remotely in the national interest as any left-wing cultural wokeism.

    >It’s not even in the interest of his own base: The [five states with the largest share of wind power](https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/red-states-renewables) in America are red states. They generated at least a third of their power from wind. This is geography, not politics: Rural districts across the middle of America [have the most solar and wind energy potential](https://climatecabineteducation.org/green-potential-red-resistance-the-renewable-energy-paradox-in-republican-districts/). They know it and are taking advantage of it — even if they vote Republican.

    >Most important: If Trump’s all-in-on-fossil-fuels, “drill, baby, drill” rallying cry — at the dawn of this era of artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, batteries and autonomous cars — really becomes our strategy, it will not make America great again. But it will definitely help make China great again.

    No one can claim it’s just “fear-mongering” anymore – Trump is selling out the country’s future in the name of right-wing ideology. An ideology that hates progress and anything that doesn’t support more concentration of wealth in the hands of a few oil barons and oligarchs. He seems out of touch and mentally ill but the real question is why a third of American voters would choose a rapist, convicted criminal and liar to be their leader. It’s going to be a long, long four years.

  8. The White Man religion is based on the idea that only White Men are true humans. The best humans. The only endeavors that are worthy to pursue are: impregnating as many women as possible, digging up the earth / cutting down trees / killing animals and attacking anyone that suggests there is a better way. I was raised in a rural town in the Western US and this is the foundation of daily life.

  9. clueless shit post with bs rhetoric. manly? silly? more like op is weird and full of hate.

    The free market will continue the appropriate technology mix.

  10. What makes people think he has any intention of making things better, the only logical conclusion when you take his policies as a whole is that he wants to crash the US economy.

    This would suit the super rich and under the new system nobody would need to vote again, because they won’t be given an option.

  11. Coal rolling diesel trucks will prevent you from having gay thoughts.

    Source: Totally not gay F250 owner.

  12. can you imagine a solar-powered Plane? I’m not that stupid to get into one EVER!

  13. tRump 2.0 is accelerating the decline of the American empire along with its industrial leadership and influence abroad.

  16. Meh, renewable and EVs will keep falling in price and plain old capitalism and love for money will easily win.

  18. How cute NYT is trying to use the term woke against him. Woke culture is one of the reasons he won, especially with groups like Latinos

  20. Right wing wokeism is like me saying, “it is raining dry”. This makes no sense unless you are trying to confuse people and change the definition of what a word means and how it is properly used. Shame on the NYT. We literally live in the dystopia world described in the book 1984.

  21. “China is also not so silly”
    Could this be anymore blantantly anti-us, pro-china? Disgusting

  22. It’s because the educated liberals control “truth” apparently.

  23. He’s “red pilled”. That is the right wing version of woke. Basically, he’s a right wing version of the annoying, screechy, tone deaf liberal.
    But that’s most of the MAGA people now. They went from poking fun at idiots. To getting enraged and becoming their own version of the same idiots.

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