A brief history of comparing wokeness to a religion

An idea that the right rediscovers every five minutes - without thanking its author.

I’ve been asked to explain why online leftists, over the past year or so, have taken to cryptically pointing out that “wokeness is like a religion.” The short answer is that we have been mocking the tidal wave of right-wing pundits who, for whatever reason, have decided to steal this insight from its original author without attribution. The long answer …