Yes, but if angry white parents spent months complaining to school boards that their kids were being taught about institutional racism, it would be less “gangbusters electoral strategy” and more “those feral rednecks are insane”
https://twitter.com/erut03/status/1456650236659597318
And for the record, I have not conceded that Rufo just “gave a name” to a thing that was already happening: he used the name of an existing legal academic theory to describe something completely different. It’s a little like calling the Native Americans “Indians.”
I am well aware that informing conservatives that they are factually incorrect is exclusively the domain of pointy-headed political naifs, as it changes the minds of no one and makes our side appear fussy, pedantic, & completely out-of-touch with the pulse of Real Americans
The message of CRT was a dog whistle: “They’re teaching our kids that white people are racist!” To Trump’s America, that was like waving a red flag in front of a bull.
Because for all their talk of rioting & looting Black Lives Matter thugs and Cancel Culture and Sharia Law and the Woke Left and Obama’s birth certificate and building a wall at the Mexican border, the one thing Republicans can’t abide is ANYONE suggesting they are racist.
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