In October 2024, sporting a black cap with “Maga” (“Make America Great Again”) During an electoral meeting, Elon Musk had promoted the line “Dark Maga”, which has been thriving in the spheres of the most radical American male right. A line that pleads for a more return darkor literally more “dark”, therefore more authoritarian and violent, of Donald Trump for his new presidential mandate, explains the American magazine Fast Company.
While the Republican billionaire has returned to power since January 20, he seems to have taken his policy his hardcore that it applies with vehement declarations and decrees deemed sometimes unconstitutional. A counter-offensive recently emerged on American social networks, through the hashtag #Darkwoke: It is, in mirror, to claim to be wokism, this hated scarecrow of the right … but in an upset version.
The term began to circulate in the morning of the nomination of Donald Trump, inspired by a first meme released during the campaign, “Dark Brandon”, who showed a Joe Biden with a diabolical smile and with laser eyes, ready to do battle with his opponent. Today it is available with an avalanche of valves cultivating black humor and aggressiveness to respond to the Republicans and the Moral Padings they are waving.
Dark Brandon Activated https://t.co/dpziv1u7tz pic.twitter.com/dzczuqtnyq
– RR (@rawdog2dn) January 21, 2025
No more pipous left
To the far-right influencer Chaya Raichik, who takes the Libs of Tiktok account, and was indignant to see the Democratic parliamentarian Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez qualify Donald Trump as “rapist”the latter responded in a tweet: “Oh, do you shock you?” Still cry. “ Elsewhere, a surfer joked: “My grandmother voted for Donald Trump, so I made sure that she is falling well on the stairs.” In another video published on social networks, it is a person glued to black people who tag a huge male sex on a Tesla cybertruck, the car manufacturer led by Elon Musk.
#Darkwoke is rising. pic.twitter.com/2tap6tzho2
– Right Wing Cope (@rightwingcope) FEBRUARY 3, 2025
“Dark wokism” does not take itself seriously. He intends to respond to the outrageousness of the right, mixing the codes of the left with the operating modes of his opponents. Faced with the image of a smooth and polished left with demanding moral values, some claim a riposte a nasty hair. “I think this story of” Dark Woke “had to end up one day or another, because in this cultural war, the camp of the left was not cruel enough to integrate into American politics”comments a user on network X.
This slightly trashy progressive vein presents itself as a cathartic response to hateful flow released by Trumpian politics, but also in the face of the relative passivity of American Democratic officials, whose response and strategy are struggling after Joe Biden’s mandate. But it still remains generally confined to the arena of social networks and certainly does not make the weight in front of
“Dark Maga”which is indeed able to impose his political agenda.
