One reason that I'm not a fan of Hedges is that he elevates "wokeness", which has become a classic pejorative and "dog whistle" for the Right to attack Black radicalism, to a central role in capitalism, rather than one side of the coin (the other being Christian Right Nationalism). He seems here to be pandering a bit too much to social conservatives in order to sell a right-wing "populist" coalition to challenge what he perceives as this hegemonic "wokeness".