Glenn Youngkin's top strategists: 'It wasn't just CRT,' it was 'parents matter'

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Glenn Youngkin's top strategists: 'It wasn't just CRT,' it was 'parents matter'

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/11/05/glenn-youngkins-top-strategists-it-wasnt-just-crt-it-was-parents-matter-n427246

If you’ve been on Twitter or turned on MSNBC this week, you’ve heard a lot about Republicans scamming voters with a bogus story about CRT in schools. That claim is a debating tactic. It’s true that K-12 students aren’t literally being handed CRT textbooks in schools, but progressives are using that fact to obscure another more salient one: That teachers, unions and administrators are warming up to a left-wing ideology on race which tracks with the anti-racism coming from Ibram Kendi and Robin DiAngelo. It’s not CRT proper, it’s a kind of CRT derivative which really is making its way into schools. We got some first-hand testimony about that yesterday.

But it turns out that the focus on CRT was only one part of a larger message on education that was coming out of Youngkin’s campaign. Think of it as Youngkin’s campaign message as filtered through bitter progressives who are looking for something to rant about. Today Politico published an interview with two of Glenn Youngkin’s top campaign strategists, Kristin Davison and Jeff Roe. They explained their broader strategy on the issue of education.

Jeff Roe: ... Terry McAuliffe said it better than we ever could have: He wanted to restrict the parents’ involvement in their children’s education. When he said that, then we could say, “Parents matter. Terry wants the government in between you and your child’s life.” And then it spoke to everybody. We didn’t have to explain it to anyone, because they heard what they wanted to hear in that message…

Kristin Davison: I think what you’re seeing on Fox News — when there’s someone with a bit of fire coming out of their ears over CRT — we weren’t seeing that as much on the ground, and we weren’t adjusting what we were doing on the ground when we would see that on TV.

What we were seeing was real parents [concerned about education] — and not just the parents that go to the Republican “Lincoln Day” dinner every year. These were parents who probably haven’t voted in years, [and] Democrats and independents in the bluest parts of the state — Arlington and Alexandria. And it’s because the fight on the ground wasn’t about CRT or this “culture war.”

You had two choices. Glenn and our message was that we believe parents should be involved and have a say — and not just on school safety, but on standards, not just on one specific issue. Terry and Democrats had framed it so that teachers unions and political agendas would have a bigger role in your child’s education than you do. And that’s a powerful message, and it’s very different and deeper than just a CRT message…

CRT and the covering up of rapes by "Trans", as important as they were and are, were symptoms of the disease, the take-over and hijacking of education for political indoctrination, and cutting parents out of the education of their children.

[Eupher]

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out you can't teach poisonous theory like CRT to kids by presenting the actual text. It's done in stages, with the aid of "Dick and Jane" type books. Ratchet up the message as time goes on. In 20 years, presto -- you've got black supremacy.

It's already happening -- I don't give a damn what the leftists say, because they lie. They lie all the time.

[old dog 2]

I don't give a damn what the leftists say, because they lie. They lie all the time.

We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Muddling 2]

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out you can't teach poisonous theory like CRT to kids by presenting the actual text. It's done in stages, with the aid of "Dick and Jane" type books. Ratchet up the message as time goes on. In 20 years, presto -- you've got black supremacy.

It's already happening -- I don't give a damn what the leftists say, because they lie. They lie all the time.

I'd commented elsewhere, the Leftists trying to pretend this isn't being taught have a primitive superstition that "The Word is the Thing". Their superstition leads them to feel that if they mutter the correct words and phrases, they can change the fabric of reality itself. Thus, their continue use of "Transwoman" as if repeating the word enough times can change a biological male into a female.