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Right Wing Bonus Tracks: It's Common Knowledge

Bonus Tracks
  • These two clips(link is external) from Glenn Beck, set eight years apart, amply demonstrate how "critical race theory" is the new "Common Core"—that is, both terms have been stripped of their original meaning and transformed into catchall phrases used to attack anything the right dislikes.
  • Carol Swain claims(link is external) that teaching critical race theory is illegal and may violate the Constitution.
  • Kat Kerr attended the recent Road To Majority conference, organized by Ralph Reed's Faith & Freedom Coalition, and claims(link is external) that members of Congress, elected officials, and candidates were chasing her down to take photos and pray with her.
  • Michael Flynn is speaking(link is external) at an event this weekend called "Patriots Arise, Awakening The Dead," alongside a host(link is external) of QAnon(link is external) and right-wing(link is external) conspiracy(link is external) theorists(link is external).
  • Finally, nothing quite captures the utterly debased nature of right-wing media today like broadcaster Stew Peters interviewing(link is external) some unseen Twitter user to "confirm" that it's common knowledge in D.C. that former Vice President Mike Pence and Chief Justice John Roberts are pedophiles.