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    Rick Perlstein‏Verified account @rickperlstein Jun 16

    So, "critical race theory": right-wing strategists identifying, then exacerbating, local discontents about cultural change as an organizing tool has been utterly routinized for almost 50 years. THAT'S THE STORY! Yet somehow it comes off as novel each and every time.pic.twitter.com/fR52Q8Hxwf

    9:10 AM - 16 Jun 2021
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    • moumay Sara 🍫💻📚☕️🙋🏼‍♀️Conklin Alex Howlett Toby Higbie Not Here 4 Followers, BA, CPhT Alex Galarce Vanessa Der Klawer sari graham Election Day Is November 3 2020
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      1. Joel Hanes‏ @hanes_joel Jun 16
        Replying to @rickperlstein

        > identifying, then exacerbating, local discontents about cultural change as an organizing tool At least since 1912. A new pool table at the Pleazol. Cap'n Billy's Whiz-Bang. Chaucer! Rabelais! Balzac. You've got trouble, my friends, you're in terrible terrible trouble

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      2. Bob Cook‏ @notgoingpro Jun 16
        Replying to @rickperlstein

        I'm constantly sending people back to the Kanawha County Textbook War of 1974, where the same techniques as "critical race theory" backlash were used, down to the involvement of the Heritage Foundation.

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      3. Rick Perlstein‏Verified account @rickperlstein Jun 16
        Replying to @notgoingpro

        My man!

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      1. martin andrews‏ @martina28813939 Jun 16
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        “We organize discontent.” This a divide and conquer strategy that dates back to forever.

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      2. Donald's Conscience‏ @ReallyRealDonny Jun 16
        Replying to @rickperlstein @LOLGOP

        Right-wing PR is absolute top-shelf. If they could govern 1/1 as effectively as they can market, the US would be in a far better place than we are whenever they get even a smidgen of control.

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      2. Scoop Jackson Democrat‏ @JamesVlcek Jun 16
        Replying to @rickperlstein

        Midway through “Reaganland” right now. Stunned by how the portents of today’s political madness were so present during the early Carter admin, but so invisible to (the much younger) me at the time.

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      3. Rick Perlstein‏Verified account @rickperlstein Jun 16
        Replying to @JamesVlcek

        You should read up on the 1850s. Now THOSE are some portents!

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      1. Ligma male‏ @chetski_3000 Jun 16
        Replying to @rickperlstein

        Yeah wasn't this literally why the john birch society was created?

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      2. Adam Laats‏ @AdamLaats Jun 16
        Replying to @rickperlstein

        Right on. Over and over. Some of today's language is so similar to the anti-Rugg crusade of 1939-1941 it blows my mind. https://adamlaats.net/2018/05/09/the-other-school-reformers-conservative-activism-in-american-education/ …pic.twitter.com/SAO6l1PjAP

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      3. Bonfire of The Inanities‏ @safety_refinery Jun 16
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        The American Legion has always been this way huh?

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