Dana Milbank plunges into one of the rings of the right's multi-ringed circus arena: "Senate Republicans [have] embraced the latest Fox-News-generated conspiracy theory: that a shadowy network of America haters — suspiciously similar to antifa, BLM and the deep state — had taken over the Biden administration with a nefarious ideology known as critical race theory."
Congressional Republicans are receiving plentiful help at the state level, too. Notes Milbank's Post colleague, Max Boot: "[Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis is appealing to White voters who aren’t quite sure what critical race theory is but know they don’t like it. At DeSantis’s urging, the state Board of Education just banned public schools from teaching about critical race theory. There’s only one small problem: According to the Miami Herald, 'The theory is not taught in any Florida school districts, state officials acknowledge.'"
Problem? Small, middling, or large? Not at all. Republicans' CRT obsession is just another example of their pattern of "treat[ing] something unserious as serious." Milbank further notes that CRT has "been around for decades in academic circles without attracting much attention." Actually, no attention — not of the public sort, anyway. Even in my years of political and cultural history grad studies, not once did I hear or read of critical race theory. But there in the ivory towers' upper levels it has lurked, shrieks the GOP — its propagandists insidiously biding time until the nation at large was ripe for intellectual pollution and revolutionary destruction. And that time is now.
Why, CRT pushers are an even greater threat to American honor than were the schemers behind Mr. Potato Head's ruthless demise.
What does it all mean? Nothing, except for this additional "small problem." CRT-bashing is yet another ingenious way in which to distract the public from Republicans' true goal: the murder of American democracy.