Thanks. The left has often indeed been smugly politically correct and overprotective for decades. This is what Bill Maher's original television show was about in the 1990s. But political correctness seemed to galvanize the left as a political tribe and cult only later.
For what it's worth, the wikipedia page on "woke" includes a section on the broadening usage, which says, 'André Brock, a professor of black digital studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology, suggested that the term woke proved popular on Twitter because its brevity suited the platform's 140-character limit. According to Charles Pulliam-Moore, the term began crossing over into general internet usage as early as 2015. The phrase stay woke became an Internet meme, with searches for woke on Google surging in 2015. The term increasingly came to be identified with members of the millennial generation.'
