"In fact, the entire hue and cry against CRT is not about ending division; it is about preserving it. It is not about racial reconciliation; it is about inspiring racial panic, of the kind that swept the South in the 1830s, the 1890s, and the 1950s. That this phony scare is active in states outside the South is a sign of the success the conservative movement has achieved in exporting the religious, political, and racial values of the South to states in the heartland. It is no longer only in the old Confederacy that questioning of the racial order is seen as next to treason.
"Glenn Youngkin is simply the latest in a line of mountebanks willing to stir race hatred and fear to gain power.
"He knows how it is done; like me, he learned it in school." -- Garrett Epps in Washington Monthly, concluding a must- read article for anyone wishing to know how Trump Republican "mountebanks" like Glenn Youngkin are using critical race theory as a racist wedge issue. Epps draws on his own background, raised in Virginia at a similar time as Youngkin, in demonstrating how the education system was fraught with "state- imposed racial racial ideology" full of myths bolstering white supremacy. Good read.
Virginians, please get out and vote for Terry McAuliffe and the entire Democratic slate. Don't let this Trumpist Republican mountebank win.
