Republicans, Education-Reform Activists Celebrate Democrats’ Plan to Double Down on Critical Race Theory

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Then Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin gives a thumbs up to the crowd during a campaign event in Leesburg, Va., November 1, 2021.

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Elected Republicans, their operatives, and education-reform activists are cheering on Democratic strategists who insist that the party must cling ever more tightly to critical race theory as the 2022 midterms approach.

“They’ve called it a ‘racist dog whistle’ and a ‘lie,'” begins a Business Insider article in which a roundtable of Democratic strategists lay out their roadmap for how best to push back on Republican messaging surrounding the presence of critical race theory (CRT) in public schools.

Isaac Schorr

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Isaac Schorr

Isaac Schorr is an editor at Mediaite and a 2023–2024 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow at the Fund for American Studies.

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