1. I don't think it's sufficiently understood that the battle over the meaning of January 6 is feeding into the new salience of racism/anti-racism in right wing arguments.https://twitter.com/votevets/status/1409675481469702151 …
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2. On the face of it, going big on anti-anti-racism (as in the CRT moral panic) doesn't make a lot of sense under Biden (who by virtue of being an old white man isn't an easy target). 2020 was a depolarizing election on race. But January 6 has made it central again.
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3. Involvement of racist groups like Proud Boys in Jan. 6 & also disproportionate role of former military led Biden administration to give priority to rooting out racist extremism in military. Tucker Carlson has been on forefront of stoking backlash to this.
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4. Ultimately I think the anti-CRT stuff & "woke military" nonsense will feed off each other. That's the direction culture wars heading. More here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/extremists-in-the-military-have-a?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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