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The Republicans’ Critical Race War

If GOP politicians hated critical race theory as much as they claim they do, they would be trying to refute it with reasoned arguments and credible evidence. Instead, today’s Republicans are enacting the theory as an electoral strategy.

CHICAGO – For the past few years, Republicans in the United States have been waging an escalating battle against an academic approach to studying race in America known as critical race theory (CRT). They are fighting not because they are right, or even because they believe they are right, but because they have found that when it comes to winning US elections, culture warfare pays off. Racial animosity, sad to say, remains a key weapon in the arsenal of culture warriors.

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