quick thread on why CRT was such an effective campaign lie, aside from appealing to suburban racism 1/
GOP used CRT as a battering ram to hit Dems. but truth is most elected Dems had never heard of CRT and certainly weren’t supporters of it being taught in schools, esp to young students 2/
Meaning, there was no natural Dem instinct to get into the CRT debut and forcefully debunk claims abt it being taught 3/
It would be like if GOP launched hysterical campaign abt how calculus shouldn’t be taught in elementary schools. Dems reax would be a) it’s not and b) ok….
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