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They're not. You can look at the evolution of someone like Noah Smith to see an example. He went from pretty woke in his Bloomberg days to heavily criticizing wokeness while still being left-leaning today. Back in 2021 some Dems still didn't have antibodies to the woke mindvirus which is part of why Biden picked some of them. That, and "staffers" are kind of their own unique breed that have been radicalized by the internet on both sides. The Right has an increasing problem with its own staffers being groypers these days.
There very clearly is. The woke faction still exists certainly, but it's much less powerful than in its heyday.
How does this prove that centrist Democrats aren't woke, and won't come back to promoting wokeness the moment they secure their power again?
They already had lots back in 2016. They just decided to purge them. Because they are woke.
Did you just link to an article about a group of staffers for being mildly edgy, and said that explains centrist Democrats somehow weren't in power because of their staffers?
There isn't. They lost power to Republicans, not some faction of anti-woke Democrats. Some of them realized they should keep quiet to not lose elections, but there's no evidence that the Democrats are any less woke than they use to be.
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