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The Latest Republican Strategy Ahead Of The 2022 Elections: War On Critical Race Theory.
From the evocation of the “silent majority” to the “southern strategy” to the “birther movement” and now the “Marxist CRT”, the stoking of culture wars is crucial and central to the republican strategy for electoral success, next year.
In the aftermath of signing the civil and voting rights bills, Lyndon Baines Johnson presciently said that in making discrimination illegal across the former confederate states, the democrats had given up the south to the Republicans, for the foreseeable future and he was absolutely right.
In the intervening years, Richard Nixon claimed to speak for the “silent majority” enroute to winning the 1968 and 1972 elections and then we had the likes of Lee Atwater carefully crafting not so subtle appeals to white fears, when working for Governor Ronald Reagan in 1980
In what became known as the “southern strategy”, Lee Atwater, articulated what he meant in 1981, in tapes that were later handed to the grandson of the former president of the United States, James Carter IV.
Atwater: As to the whole Southern strategy that Harry S. Dent, Sr. and others put together in 1968, opposition to the Voting Rights Act would have been a central part of keeping the South. Now you don’t have to do that. All that…