Virginia Democrats Compare Anti-CRT Movement To The KKK
Delegate Marcus Simon (D-Falls Church) says the quiet part out loud.
First things first, JCMA put out a poll showing Republican challenger Glenn Youngkin down by 4 against former Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe.
Percentage of those polled with a graduate level education or better?
To be clear again, ladies and gentlemen — McAuliffe is up by 4 in a poll where 32% have a masters degree or better.
Meanwhile, Governor Ralph Northam is trying to recover his reputation at the First Church of Wokedom be recounting all his sins to a priest… er, New York Times reporter Astead Herndon.
The questions are in bold; Northam’s response follows:
As if on cue, Delegate Marcus Simon (D-Falls Church) goes straight for the dog whistle himself by comparing parents and educators concerned about Critical Race Theory (CRT) with the — you guessed it — Ku Klux Klan:
SIMON: “We know who is an ally of this movement…I’m not saying everybody who supports ‘Open FCPS’ is a member of the KKK, but when the KKK is on your side, you need to rethink your priorities.”
Does Delegate Simon mean this side?
Let’s be really clear about this. The KKK is reprehensible. Dog whistles are reprehensible. Guilt-by-association tactics are reprehensible.
But an imaginative person just might rephrase Simon’s sanctimony in just such a way as to place them in so ridiculous a light that such comparisons might stop being parody, but reality:
SIMON: “We know who is an ally of the Democratic Party…I’m not saying everybody who supports the Democrats is a member of the KKK, but when Ralph Northam is on your side, you need to rethink your priorities.”
If Simon’s standards are the new norm? Last I checked, Northam endorsed both McAuliffe and Ayala.
Making matters just slightly worse, for Virginia Democrats to play this card on the eve of a holiday honoring the end of slavery in America is marvelously tone deaf, especially when it was Republicans who made Juneteenth possible — while Democrats were still fighting to keep their slaves.
Of course, the Wall Street Journal has an excellent overview of what CRT is and in particular its roots in the critical legal theory of the 1970s. Virginia Republican lieutenant governor candidate and former Delegate Winsome Sears (R-Norfolk) was quoted towards the end of the article:
Many Republicans deride critical race theory as divisive, and argue that Democrats who advocate policies specifically geared toward curbing racial discrepancies in the economy and other parts of society are embracing it.
“This critical race theory, ostensibly it’s supposed to help people who look like me,” Winsome Sears, the GOP nominee for lieutenant governor in Virginia, said at a campaign event last month. Ms. Sears, who is Black, said America offers opportunities to all who work hard. “We’re worried about teaching reading, writing, and racism instead of reading, writing and arithmetic,” she said.
Which I think brings us full circle to this little poll. Three thoughts:
McAuliffe is polling well among credentialed elites with masters degrees, but not in the suburbs not well among black communities. The social media narrative that there was some Republican backlash against Juneteenth was met with open laughter as folks remember that it was Republicans — not Democrats — who bled to make Juneteenth possible.
Meanwhile, it’s not just suburban families sick and tired of being told their 6-year old daughter is a racist. Black Americans are getting a little fed-up with the notion that the only way they will ever achieve great things in this world is through some sort of structural subsidization at the hand of condescending white liberals with masters degrees…
McAuliffe and the Dems are campaigning to their base. Who is that base, you may ask? That 32% of credentialed elites with masters degrees telling people in cubicles what TPS report to file.
Terry McAuliffe and the Virginia Democrats — once the party of the working man — have become the party of Bill Lumberg.
Don’t forget to file your anti-racist TPS reports with the new coversheet. You did get the memo, right?
Capping off miserable week for Virginia Democrats, the virtual debate between Republican Delegate Jason Miyares and Democratic AG Mark “Blackface” Herring went about as one-sided as you would expect.
Both the Washington Post and the Richmond Times-Dispatch did some water carrying for Herring regarding the Parole Board scandal — where Herring not only had to sign off on releases but got the chance to “review” his own $250,000 taxpayer fueled exoneration — but the impact was clear. Miyares swept the board and put Herring on defense all night long, while Herring responded with the typical drivel of MSNBC talking points.
So there you have the state of the race.
McAuliffe is spinning, Virginia Democrats are slandering, black Virginians are done with Democratic condescension, 32% of credentialed cubicle dwellers tip polls, Republicans celebrate Juneteenth… and a par-r-r-tridge in a pear tr-e-e-e.
One last thought as the Democrats simultaneously say CRT doesn’t exist and yet magically does:
"Slandering parents who are fighting for their children's education as racists is a bold strategy. Let's see if it pays off for them."
-- Garren Shipley, spokesman for the Virginia House Republican Caucus
Meanwhile, the beat still goes on in places such as Loudoun County where CRT professionals (sic) are being installed in key positions.
Plenty of work to do, my friends.
Shaun Kenney is the editor of The Republican Standard, former chairman of the Board of Supervisors for Fluvanna County, and a former executive director of the Republican Party of Virginia.