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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Justin Baragona

Right-wing pundit urges MAGA to stop calling everything ‘woke’ amid Cracker Barrel backlash

National Review staff writer Caroline Downey urged MAGA to pump the brakes on their over-the-top outrage over Southern-themed restaurant chain Cracker Barrel’s changing its logo, telling her fellow conservatives that they need to stop labeling everything they don’t like as “woke.”

Downey’s warning to Trump supporters came as prominent Republicans and right-wing media figures called for a boycott of Cracker Barrel amid its “woke rebrand,” with Rep. Byron Donalds going so far as to claim he “gave my life to Christ in their parking lot” while saying it’s “time to Make Cracker Barrel Great Again.”

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