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"Former top aides to President Donald Trump have begun an aggressive push to combat the teaching of critical race theory and capitalize on the issue politically, confident that a backlash will vault them back into power.
These officials, including Trump’s former campaign chief and two former budget advisers, have poured money and organizational muscle into the fight. They’ve aided activists who are pushing back against the concept that racism has been systemic to American society and institutions after centuries of slavery and Jim Crow. And some of them have begun working with members of Congress to bar the military from holding diversity trainings and to withhold federal funds from schools and colleges that promote anything that can be packaged as critical race theory."
Repubs have historically used culture war issues from abortion to gay marriage to transgender rights to get the base to the polls. Now it appears this election cycle's frontrunner is going to be generating resentment over CRT. A school of thought essentially putting entrenched racism at the heart of this country's most prominent organizing principle. Repubs are losing their minds over it...............proving the school of thought to be correct. More powerful than cancel culture, faster than the speeding bullet of editing comic books, the folks behind the scenes pulling the strings of a base easily manipulated see this issue as their ticket back to control of Congress. Because outrage works. It better. Cuz none of the meaningful policy positions taken by the POT (party of Trump) are popular with a majority of Americans.
These officials, including Trump’s former campaign chief and two former budget advisers, have poured money and organizational muscle into the fight. They’ve aided activists who are pushing back against the concept that racism has been systemic to American society and institutions after centuries of slavery and Jim Crow. And some of them have begun working with members of Congress to bar the military from holding diversity trainings and to withhold federal funds from schools and colleges that promote anything that can be packaged as critical race theory."
'The Tea Party to the 10th power': Trumpworld bets big on critical race theory
Republicans aren’t coy about what they are trying to do. It’s not just about changing curricula. It’s about taking back Congress.
www.politico.com
Repubs have historically used culture war issues from abortion to gay marriage to transgender rights to get the base to the polls. Now it appears this election cycle's frontrunner is going to be generating resentment over CRT. A school of thought essentially putting entrenched racism at the heart of this country's most prominent organizing principle. Repubs are losing their minds over it...............proving the school of thought to be correct. More powerful than cancel culture, faster than the speeding bullet of editing comic books, the folks behind the scenes pulling the strings of a base easily manipulated see this issue as their ticket back to control of Congress. Because outrage works. It better. Cuz none of the meaningful policy positions taken by the POT (party of Trump) are popular with a majority of Americans.