What is the "Woke Right"? A Simple Breakdown
Imagine the "Woke Left" – those activists who fight for social justice by focusing on identity (like race or gender), seeing society as rigged against certain groups, and pushing for big changes to fix it. Now flip that script: the **Woke Right** is right-wing folks who use the *exact same playbook* – but for conservative, nationalist, or "traditional" causes. They're like the Left's nightmare version of conservatives, but they're real people on the Right who think and act just like Woke Leftists, only with different targets.
Think of it as a mirror image: the Left says, "Minorities are victims of the system – let's give them power!" The Woke Right says, "White people, men, Christians, and nationalists are the *real* victims now – stolen from their rightful place by 'woke' policies like diversity programs. We need to take power back!"
On the Surface: Victimhood and "The Greater Good"
At its simplest, Woke Right people build their movement around feeling like underdogs based on who they are (e.g., "straight white Christian guy"). They say the current system – run by liberals and the Woke Left – has kicked them out of their "natural" spot at the top. This creates a group identity, like an "intersectional" club (borrowing a Left term for overlapping oppressions), where they bond over shared grievances.
They claim this outsider view gives them special wisdom about what's best for everyone – the "common good." Just like the Woke Left believes oppressed groups "get it" because of their struggles, the Woke Right says *they* get it because they've been pushed aside. So, they push for changes that hurt their enemies (like immigrants or "elites") to "save" society. It's a trade-off: give up some freedoms now, so *they* can go after the bad guys for you.
Deeper Down: A "Woke" Mindset of Rebellion and Special Knowledge
Go a layer deeper, and it's about an "awakening" – feeling like enlightened rebels who see the truth others miss. They view themselves as rightful rulers who got robbed, inspired by myths of a perfect past (like "old-school America" before modern changes). This "dispossession" (losing what they think is theirs) makes them angry and justified in causing "pain" to fix things. No easy fixes – just tough love they claim to understand best.
Their identity is their superpower: Starting a rant with "As a white Christian man..." is like a badge of authority, flipping the Left's "As a Black woman..." It's not just about suffering (though that fuels the fire); it's about reclaiming a "heritage" throne. The Left gets moral high ground from pain; the Right gets it from "lost glory."
This leads to a rebellious vibe: They pick beliefs based on what's *banned* by today's rules. Racism? "The system's twisted the word, so let's reclaim a bit – defiantly!" Same for anti-gay views, blaming Jews, or hating immigrants. Even Christianity: Embrace it not because it's "true," but because it's "suppressed" by enemies. Basically, the Left sets the menu, and they order the forbidden stuff to spite them.
Even Deeper: Distrusting Experts and Rewriting the Rules
Like the Woke Left, they hate "the system" controlling knowledge. Experts? Suspect – part of the elite trap. Why do homework or fact-check when "outsiders like us" have the real scoop? They mock due diligence as a gatekeeping trick, elevate amateur rants to "alternative facts," and love conspiracies (e.g., "Experts lie to keep power!"). It's all about "just asking questions" to poke holes in the status quo.
The word “Woke” is key it means "waking up" to a big-picture view: Society's a battlefield between evil "theys" (powerful insiders like post-WWII liberals) and us true outsiders. Use "conflict theory" (think class war, but for culture) to smash it and rebuild. For the Woke Right, WWII's aftermath created a sneaky liberal order that neutered the "real Right" and let Marxists sneak in.
Russia just told on itself this week, and almost nobody noticed.
At a Federation Council meeting, Deputy Justice Minister Oleg Sviridenko admitted that only 4% of the people and groups Russia designated as "foreign agents" in 2025 actually receive any foreign funding.
Before 2022, foreign money was a requirement for the label. His point, said out loud, was that money is no longer what they look for — because, in his words, it "isn't even needed anymore. There are other forms now."
That's a huge admission right there.
The state that spent a century perfecting political subversion is telling you, on the record, that funding is the least interesting part of the equation.
Now look at the conversation this past week. Candace Owens is in St. Petersburg right now, speaking on a panel at Putin's flagship economic forum, beside officials who sit under U.S. sanctions. And the question I keep seeing is some version of "how much is Russia paying her?"
I don't think Russia is paying her anything.
Same with Tucker and the endless speculation over how much Qatar or Iran is supposedly wiring him. I don't think there's a check.
And even if there were, you'd never find it — shell layers, cash, a relative's account, an "honorarium" for a speech, a consulting deal booked in a third country. If your case depends on producing a wire transfer, you've already lost it.
But the deeper mistake is the premise that influence runs on money. It doesn't.
The intelligence world has known this for decades, and it has a name for it: MICE.
🔸️Money
🔸️Ideology
🔸️Coercion
🔸️Ego
Money is one lever of four, and arguably the weakest. Yet our entire legal conversation behaves as if it's the only one on the list.
Ideology is the one we mistake for innocence — the sincere believer who pushes a foreign line because he holds it. We call him a "useful idiot," as if sincerity were a defense rather than the most valuable trait an asset can have.
Coercion is the one you can't see — leverage someone abroad quietly holds and never has to mention.
And Ego is the most underrated of all, because the targets already have money. What a state can hand them for free is the feeling of mattering. A seat at a table they'd never otherwise reach, proximity to power, the sense of being a serious geopolitical figure rather than a podcaster. People have burned down their lives for that.
This is why the binary everyone reaches for (money or ideology) is useless.
Because structurally, we only see the M.
FARA asks one question — did foreign money touch you, and were you acting at the direction of a foreign principal.
Prosecutors hunt for the payment because the payment is provable. So the people most openly advancing a foreign agenda, the ones running on ego or ideology, sit cleanly outside the law.
They're untouchable precisely because they're unpaid. The professionals — Russia, Iran, Qatar, Turkey, China — worked this out long ago.
The cleanest asset has no financial tie at all. No paper trail, no defector risk, nothing to subpoena.
We need to stop asking how much people are being paid. It's the wrong question, built to be unanswerable.
Rather, ask the question Sviridenko handed us for free: what does this person get out of the relationship that they couldn't get anywhere else?
Answer that, and the rest is surprisingly simple.
Candace will return from Russia to tell Tucker about how GREAT it was
Then Tucker interviews Dave Smith
Dave Smith interviews Theo Von
Theo Von interviews Candace
Candace interviews Dave Smith
Tucker interviews Theo Von
And they'll all agree Russia is better than the USA
@ryanmauro@imelizabethlane@Kash_Patel When you see a foreign subverter there’s something about keeping a low profile and not being an egomaniac that’s helpful to your cause.
"Also, Russia is not a devoutly Christian nation. The claim that it is has become a major propaganda line very recently, pushed heavily to shape perceptions in the West, especially in the US."
Approximately 6% to 12% of Russian citizens actively attend church services at least once a month - far below what the propaganda that is elevated in American social media.
Alexander Dugin is offering the American Right the same offer that Satan gave to Christ on the high mountain: All of this I will give you - the power to rout your enemies, the victory in the culture war, the restored dominion of a Christian Empire. Just bow down to me. Bow down to the strong man. Trade your birthright of ordered liberty for a guarantee of victory.
Jesus refused that offer. "You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve." Not an empire. Not a "Christian Prince." A church taken into the arms of a state is not "rescued." It is captured.
For a higher iq take on what’s going on compared to this dumbass: Yuri Bezmenov, the Soviet defector and former propaganda insider, described “ideological subversion” as a long-term process by which a hostile power weakens a society from within before any direct military confrontation is necessary. His model had four stages: demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and normalization. The goal was not simply to persuade people to become communists or openly support Moscow. It was to erode confidence in a society’s own institutions, make truth feel impossible to know, deepen internal conflict, and leave the public psychologically unable to resist foreign manipulation.
In the American context, this framework can be applied to the modern wave of voices urging Americans to distrust NATO, abandon Ukraine, admire Vladimir Putin’s Russia, or view Russia as a natural ally against liberalism, “globalism,” secularism, or Western decadence. The key point is not that every person making these arguments is a Russian agent. Many may be acting out of ideology, contrarianism, financial incentive, resentment of the U.S. establishment, religious traditionalism, audience capture, or simple ignorance. But from the perspective of Russian strategic interests, the effect can be the same.
Figures such as Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Andrew Tate, John Mappin, Elizabeth Lane, and similar online personalities have, in different ways and to different degrees, participated in a narrative environment that recasts Russia from an aggressive authoritarian state into a misunderstood defender of tradition. Some amplify the idea that NATO or the United States “provoked” Russia. Others portray Ukraine as corrupt, fake, Nazi-controlled, or not worth defending. Others frame Putin as strong, Christian, masculine, or more honest than Western leaders. These themes closely overlap with long-running Kremlin messaging: divide Americans from their allies, make Ukraine look undeserving, make Russia look inevitable or morally superior, and convince Western publics that resistance is pointless.
Bezmenov’s warning was that subversion works best when a society’s own citizens repeat the hostile power’s preferred narratives voluntarily. Once people are demoralized, facts no longer persuade them. If Russia bombs civilians, they say the media is lying. If Putin jails opponents, they say America is worse. If Ukraine is invaded, they say NATO caused it. The target population becomes trained to doubt its own side first and excuse the adversary automatically.
That is why sudden calls for America to “ally with Russia” should be viewed critically. Russia is not merely another conservative country with different values; it is a nuclear-armed authoritarian state that invaded Ukraine, works to weaken NATO, uses disinformation as statecraft, and benefits directly when Americans turn against their own democratic institutions and alliances. Whether influencers knowingly coordinate with Russian interests or merely stumble into them, the outcome can still advance the same process Bezmenov described: demoralizing the public, destabilizing consensus, pushing the country toward crisis, and then normalizing a new reality in which American power, confidence, and moral clarity have been weakened from within.
@Fair_and_Biased Don’t you know he’s a Scientologist AND a Christian AND he’s looking into becoming a Muslim too! He thinks he can be all 3 at the same time. 😂