Commentary Why are wokeness, political correctness, and virtue signalling condemned? It’s because they interfere with clear and logical thinking, producing faulty decisions and policies that waste money and hurt a lot of people. Canada and other countries today are full of examples of crooked thinking. Rex Murphy, Barbara Kay, Tucker Carlson, and Jordan Peterson are among those who reveal it. People who make a habit of clear thinking demonstrate consistent insight into the real causes of problems and effective ways to deal with them. Former Canadian prime ministers John A. Macdonald, Mackenzie King, and Louis St. Laurent were clear thinkers for the most part, as were America’s Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan, among others. I also put Donald J. Trump in this category, but not his successor or predecessor. If Barack Obama had been a good and clear-thinking president, Trump wouldn’t have had such a mess to clean …