{"id":2487215,"date":"2025-09-16T14:34:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/straight-line-from-woke-culture-to-kirk-slaying-democratic-pollster\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:35:10","slug":"straight-line-from-woke-culture-to-kirk-slaying-democratic-pollster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/straight-line-from-woke-culture-to-kirk-slaying-democratic-pollster\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Straight line\u2019 from woke culture to Kirk slaying: Democratic pollster"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstraight-line-from-woke-culture-to-kirk-slaying-democratic-pollster%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2487215&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses new polling results following the debate around the assassination of conservative figure Charlie Kirk, which reignited discussions on political violence and blame between the Left and the Right in the U.S. According to Democratic pollster John Zogby and his son Jeremy, self-reliant voters-crucial for upcoming elections-view the Democratic Party as overly focused on &#8220;woke&#8221; culture, opposed toward former President Donald Trump, and elitist. While Democrats receive credit for <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >supporting working-class families<\/a> and social justice, their emphasis on woke policies and attacking Trump is seen as a key weakness.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, independents see the Republican Party as sometimes too offensive but appreciate its &#8220;America First&#8221; agenda, business support, and anti-crime stances, elements championed by Kirk during his campus engagements. The Zogbys suggest that reducing political polarization requires Democrats to tone down their focus on Trump and woke culture, and Republicans to broaden their appeal to the middle class.<\/p>\n<p>John Zogby warns that the aggressive cancel culture on the Left may threaten free speech and potentially contribute to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-can-step-in-as-campus-antisemitism-reaches-defcon-1-experts\/\" title=\"Government can step in as campus antisemitism reaches \u2018DEFCON 1\u2019:\u00a0Experts\">hostile environment leading<\/a> to violent incidents like Kirk&#8217;s killing, although he avoids blaming entire parties or ideologies. Both pollsters note the Democrats&#8217; lowest ever approval ratings among independents, emphasizing a need for the party to redefine its vision and message to reconnect with voters. Meanwhile, Republicans appear better positioned by addressing crime and safety issues in the wake of recent violence.<\/p>\n<p>the polling highlights deep partisan divides but also points to potential paths for both parties to regain voter trust and reduce extremism by adjusting their political strategies and rhetoric. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">&lsquo;Straight line&rsquo; from woke culture to Kirk slaying: Democratic pollster<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2232662\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>As the post-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3807869\/charlie-kirk-slaying-revives-push-tighter-campus-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Charlie Kirk assassination<\/a> debate intensifies over the Left&rsquo;s claim that the Right is just as much to blame for political violence, there is new polling that shows voters believe Democrats and their woke cancel culture are more threatening to critics &mdash; and the existence of their own party.<\/p>\n<p>Independent voters, seen as the key to the direction of politics in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mikie-sherrill-defeats-house-colleague-four-others-in-new-jersey-primary\/\" title=\"Mikie Sherrill defeats House colleague, four others in New Jersey primary\">2026 congressional midterm elections<\/a> and beyond, believe the Democrats are &ldquo;too woke,&rdquo; too focused on &ldquo;attacking&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3809604\/conversation-kirk-shooting-radicalization-not-polarization-sarah-beford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Donald Trump,<\/a> and too elitist.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3808446\/martha-raddatz-swinging-for-trump-hate-liberal-media-scream\/\">Martha Raddatz went 0-3 swinging for Trump hate: Liberal Media Scream<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3807869\/charlie-kirk-slaying-revives-push-tighter-campus-security\/\">Kirk&rsquo;s slaying revives push for tighter campus security<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3806672\/washington-has-become-leaderless-on-unity-white-house-report-card\/\">Washington has become leaderless on unity: White House Report Card<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;I do think that the Left needs to do a lot more soul-searching, has to tone down its emphasis on the things that shut people out and shut people down. It is, in its most benign form, a poison within,&rdquo; said Democratic pollster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3806672\/washington-has-become-leaderless-on-unity-white-house-report-card\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Zogby.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zogby and his pollster son, Jeremy Zogby, managing partner of <a href=\"https:\/\/johnzogbystrategies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Zogby Strategies,<\/a> just wrapped up a deep dive into the views of independents and said what they found was very telling for both parties since Kirk&rsquo;s slaying at a Utah college, allegedly by a left-wing critic.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democrats &amp; the liberal media have spent years claiming they are at war with literal fascists and Nazis for the future of democracy. Now they&rsquo;re trying to tell us this is an issue for &ldquo;both sides.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not. These unhinged, dangerous lies have consequences. It has to stop. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cM0tWWAN8o\">pic.twitter.com\/cM0tWWAN8o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/berniemoreno\/status\/1967713761722241348?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>Independents were asked what they saw as the weaknesses of the Republican Party and said it is too &ldquo;offensive.&rdquo; But they saw as strengths the GOP&rsquo;s America First focus, its promotion of businesses, and its anti-crime campaign, an agenda Kirk pushed in his campus appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats won credit for backing working-class families and fighting for social justice. But the party&rsquo;s top two weaknesses were spending too much time attacking Trump and pushing woke policies.<\/p>\n<p>The polling duo said the results suggest a potential path out of the nation&rsquo;s political quagmire. Republicans could do more for the middle class, they said, and the Left could tone down its anger at Trump and his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>But in light of the comments some on the left have made about Kirk&rsquo;s killing, the Zogbys said it&rsquo;s liberals who have to make the biggest change, starting with ending efforts to silence those they disagree with.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Senator Eric Schmitt OBLITERATES the &ldquo;both sides bullshit&rdquo; coming from the left in under 2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The gaslighting about political violence ends right here. This clip says it all.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Congressional baseball practice shooting? Left wing<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Burned down cities (Summer of Love)?&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lBOxlzi10i\">pic.twitter.com\/lBOxlzi10i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vigilant Fox &#129418; (@VigilantFox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VigilantFox\/status\/1967983048479400253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While the Democrats get high marks for caring about the middle class and caring about social and racial justice, they&rsquo;re seen as too woke. And that has been a threat to freedom of speech. And, in fact, one can draw a straight line between the shouting down of people on our campuses, and then ultimately the shooting of someone that is disagreed with on a college campus. That&rsquo;s very troubling to me,&rdquo; said John Zogby.<\/p>\n<p>He was cautious not to blame specific politicians or the whole Democratic Party for political violence. &ldquo;Too broad a stroke to blame whole parties and ideologies for one act or a series of acts. Actors have serious personal issues that trigger their behavior,&rdquo; said Zogby, who co-grades Trump for the weekly <em>Washington Secrets<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3806672\/washington-has-become-leaderless-on-unity-white-house-report-card\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House Report Card.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Addressing the &ldquo;both sides do it&rdquo; debate, Zogby said neither side is right. He said conservatives have a vision and message, but they are out of date.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In this specific case, Charlie Kirk was able to provide an antidote to campus wokism, an alternative to a pattern of suppressing free speech that disenfranchised lots of young people,&rdquo; he said, adding, &ldquo;Kirk was popular and smart, but he addressed his audience by harkening back to an America pre-diversity.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And the Democrats, he added, have stood firm on woke politics that offend the Right. &ldquo;On the left, what may very well have begun as a call to more sensitivity on behalf of those disenfranchised because of race, gender, sexual preference, etc., morphed from a serious attempt to acknowledge living in a diverse world into a bludgeon, a runaway train, a pattern that had no focus beyond &lsquo;Gotcha.&rsquo; Wokism has been eating its young and its supporters for years,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Their poll showed the lowest ever approval rating of the Democratic Party by independents, another factor pushing the Left to find a new vision.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Zogby said Republicans are in a better position with their focus on crime, heightened by the slaying of Kirk and violence in big cities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3803414\/charlie-kirk-charlotte-slayings-ending-political-correctness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CHARLIE KIRK AND CHARLOTTE SLAYINGS ENDING POLITICAL CORRECTNESS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I see Republicans with the ability to address crime and safety front and center going into these national elections, and the Democrats struggling with, &lsquo;Where do we want to take this country, and what does that look like, and how do we know we&rsquo;ll have achieved it?&rsquo;&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that practicing woke politics is not the answer: &ldquo;The Democrats and the notion of what they do about woke is clearly not connecting with people and making voters&rsquo; lives better. And so the Democratic Party has to ask themselves, &lsquo;What is the end?&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Straight line&#8217; from woke culture to Kirk slaying: Poll shows voters see Democrats&#8217; woke cancel culture as a bigger threat than political violence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"featured_media":2487216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Zogby-Kirk-Poll.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[44659,63469,32171,36456],"class_list":["post-2487215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-democratic-pollster","tag-kirk-slaying","tag-political-commentary","tag-woke-culture"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Zogby-Kirk-Poll.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2487219,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487215\/revisions\/2487219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2487216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}