Thread by @ClaireBerlinski

Trump re-tweeted this.

I support the decision to crack down on teaching critical race theory in the federal government. But can you see that there's a difference between rejecting this useless ideology and affirming this tweet?

Trump is not rejecting critical race theory as a principled intellectual argument. He's just playing white grievance politics, and this retweet demonstrates that.

Does this matter? Yes, it does. Trump's twitter feed radicalizes not only the right but the left. It *confirms* the narrative that Trump is all about "white supremacy."

If you think this is a victory in the culture war, think again. It can't be won this way.

Trump has not advanced an important conservative principle here. He's discredited it. He's reduced the case against critical race theory--which is extremely strong, intellectually--to the claim that it's "anti-white."

In so doing, he's ratified one of the central claims of this theory: to wit, that the world is best understood as an exercise in preserving white supremacy and hegemony.

If you think this is an intelligent way to combat an ideology, you're not thinking it through.

If you dislike the far left and critical race theory, you really *don't* want another term of Trump. Trump and the far left need one another to justify their existence.

I wrote about this yesterday. This is a perfect example. claireberlinski.substack.com/p/on-the-late-…