Editing Wide Awakes (section)

==Legacy==
Scholars argue that any connection between the Wide Awakes and the provenance of [[woke]] as political slang, irrespective of meanings ascribed thereto, remains tenuous. Conversely, cultural memory of the Wide Awakes has impacted various movements. For example, during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States]], activists dedicated to "artistic sovereignty" and "liberation" intentionally and explicitly " 'sampled and remixed the Wide Awakes' " as both an idea and social movement. [[Black Thought]], who helped spearhead these " "remixed' " Wide Awakes, told ''The New York Times'' that, " 'throughout history, it's been the young people and creatives and intellectuals and philosophers and — just the visionaries — who understood the power in uniting, and who contributed to the greatest progress. So what the Wide Awakes represent, in my mind, is that.' "<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dellinger |first1=Matt |title=A Civil War Political Movement Reawakens — Complete With Capes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/style/wide-awakes-civil-war-activists.html |work=The New York Times |date=15 September 2020}}</ref> Also during the pandemic, [[Ben Domenech]], critic of the [[Never Trump movement]] and its allusions to Lincoln's Republican Party, praised the Wide Awakes for instilling fear in slaveholders and for their "massive rallies that supported Lincoln, acting as security to the harassment of pro-liberty speakers." Domenech favored "wide awake" over "wokeness" because the latter was "designed to put you asleep."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Staff |first1=Fox News |title=Ben Domenech explains why it is time to ask: Are you woke or are you wide awake? |url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/ben-domenech-woke-wide-awake |work=Fox News |date=2 August 2021}}</ref> In January 2025, [[the Lincoln Project]] decried such proponents of [[Trumpism]] and alleged attempts to "rewrite history", including the [[January 6 United States Capitol attack]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Quartz |first1=Evelyn |title=We Cannot Allow a Rewrite of J6 History |url=https://lincolnproject.us/j6-four-year-ago-ad/ |website=The Lincoln Project |date=6 January 2025}}</ref>