1. This is in fact the typical coalition of right-wing mobilization: elite defense of status quo allying with vulgar anger: the snobs & the slobs. In 1920 Lothrop Stoddard writing tomes while other rougher Klansmen did the lynchings: led to 1924 immigration act among others.https://twitter.com/lionel_trolling/status/1407676097261715458 …
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3. As I mentioned the other day, anti-CRT movement has this component, with both a very explicitly racialist base stirring up shit & a very organized think tank/dark money infrastructure pushing it into respectable form of GOP bills.
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4. As I mentioned before, the 1974 text book wars in West Virginia, where fundamentalist parents dynamited a school building to oppose comparative religion text, is real model. Heritage Foundation send lawyers to defend accused bombers & mobilize parents into New Right.
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5. The anti-CRT has to be understood politically: its a strategy for the out-of-national-power right to consolidate base & recruit new people. School controversies are great for right because they can cultivate local hotheads & turn them into political functionaries.
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6. I did a podcast with
@rickperlstein, the great Homeric chronicler of the American Right, tracing the origins of the anti-CRT agitation back to the schools wars of the distant past but also the New Right playbook of 1970s. It's a great conversation!https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-rick-perlstein-on-moral-panic?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …Show this thread
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