Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo, who has become a national figure for putting a spotlight on the critical race theory ideology that has emerged in schools and institutions across the country, is confident that the impassioned debate over education will go far beyond the Virginia gubernatorial race.
When asked if the issue of education will be a factor in the 2022 midterm elections, Rufo replied, “without a doubt.”
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“It’s a genuine problem and it’s motivated a genuine grassroots revolt in every state in the country,” Rufo told Fox News Digital in an interview on Tuesday, hours before polls closed in Virginia. “You have places in suburban New York City, suburban Seattle, suburban San Francisco and then even within the urban school districts in America’s bluest cities where parents are saying, ‘No, we don’t want to teach collective guilt, we don’t want to teach race essentialism, we don’t want to demolish standards and academic merit, we don’t want to eliminate gifted programs, we don’t want to submerge the pursuit of educational excellence in this really divisive and nihilistic racial orthodoxy.'”
Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. Follow him on Twitter at @realchrisrufo and sign up for his newsletter.
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Rufo, who spoke at the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando on Monday, pointed to the “shift” opposing CRT that where not only conservative base voters are mobilizing on a local level but also among “three-quarters of independent voters” and that members of minority groups across the board “all oppose it by strong margins.”
“And so you have a bipartisan and multiracial coalition of new people that have come to this issue with an incredible power. And what we’re seeing is really the mobilization of a new interest group, public…
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