A year ago, Christopher Rufo was an obscure documentarian. Now, he’s being invited on Tucker Carlson’s show to gin up fears of Marxism in America.
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"Last September, an obscure, 36-year-old documentarian named Christopher Rufo landed a slot on Tucker Carlson Tonight. Knowing the president would be watching, he sounded the alarm about an ideology almost as obscure as he was: “critical race theory.” In the months since Rufo’s TV appearance roughly a dozen states from Idaho to Tennessee have passed or considered legislation banning critical race theory from schools and government institutions -- with a likable moderate in the White House, the task for operatives like Rufo is to gin up evidence of an overwhelming conspiracy everywhere else.
The single greatest threat to the Republican Party is its newfound electoral weakness in the suburbs; in order to regain strength in those areas, especially during a midterms; the conservative movement must convince suburban voters that the other side represents an unthinkable Marxist menace. As in the days of Joseph McCarthy, the question is not whether the menace exists but who can be made to believe it exists."
So as usual, the conservative strategy isn't to craft policies that are more popular with the American people and gain more support that way -- it is as usual; to manufacture faux outrage and fear because they know their policies suck....The previous Conservative boogeymen use to be desegregation, then when they lost that battle....it was womens' rights/abortion...then it was gay rights/gay marriage....now the new boogeyman is CRT...and to basically call anything that makes conservatives uncomfortable, CRT...how do I know? Because they admit it....
View attachment 499587So he is basically admitting the strategy is to call everything critical race theory....which is why Conservatives have such a hard time explaining to you what CRT is...because to them, it is literally everything that frightens them culturally...
The reason why they have to keep manufacturing fake outrage after fake outrage is also not a secret.....because Conservatives know that their policies suck and do not have wide support...nobody is rushing to the polls to vote for lower capital gains taxes on hedgefund managers -- but they will definitely do it to stop whatever made up "boogeyman" conservatives have told them to be afraid of or mad at....No wonder Lady Lindsey said what he said....
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