Is ‘Dark Woke’ the Answer to Trumpism—or Just Liberal Cringe?

Welcome to the new hashtag-resistance, where viral clips of men defacing Cybertucks are channeling the frustrated energy of the online left. The writer Kieran Press-Reynolds asks whether it’s a promising beginning or a dead end.
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Soon after Donald Trump was sworn in for the second time, the internet started to fill up with clips of leftist vengeance, like the video of an anonymous body sprinting up to a Cybertruck and defacing its silver sheen with spray paint and a woman saying she used her daughter’s inheritance to buy a Corvette in reprisal for her having voted for Trump.

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