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Common thread joining Moms for Liberty and anti-CRT activists is right-wing Christian nationalism

Sorry … this editor just finished writing a piece about this article in The New Yorker noting that school board and superintendent candidates who railed against teachers’ unions and critical race theory “fared depressingly well” on Election Day. As an example, Jessica Winter wrote about a superintendent race in South Carolina which went to Ellen Weaver, who “borrowed the sloganeering and buzzwords of right-wing activist groups, such as the 1776 Project and Moms for Liberty — which, as my colleague Paige Williams recently reported, have turned public schools into the national stage of a manufactured culture war over critical race theory (C.R.T.), L.G.B.T.Q. classroom materials, the sexual ‘grooming’ of children, and other vehicles of ‘woke leftist’ indoctrination, as well as lingering resentment over covid-19 lockdowns.”

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Her colleague sort of nailed it: These groups have started a war against CRT, grooming, and COVID-19 lockdowns; there’s no problem with LGBTQ classroom materials, though — these groups just don’t want kindergarten teachers leading classroom discussions on gender identity and sexual orientation. But what about the poor trans kindergarteners? Boston Children’s Hospital assures us that children know they’re trans as early as in the womb. They don’t feel pain or have a heartbeat, but they know they’re trans.

The reason I’m revisiting this piece is because of this hot take by a blue check:

Bethany Mandel, who’s Jewish, is a Christian Nationalist.

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Do you mean the hundreds of Muslim parents who turned out for a school board meeting to oppose sexually explicit materials?

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Too bad, so sad:

The ghost chasers bagged plenty of votes on Tuesday. A clown-car school-board race in Charleston, South Carolina, ended with five out of nine seats going to Moms for Liberty-backed candidates. Governor Ron DeSantis—the maestro of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislation and a home-state hero to Moms for Liberty—endorsed six school-board candidates, all of whom won their races; Moms for Liberty endorsed a total of twelve in Florida, winning nine. In Texas, ten out of fifteen spots on the state school board appeared to be going to Republicans, ​​including three seats in which G.O.P. incumbents either lost or dropped out of their primary when facing opponents who took a harder line against C.R.T.

“The precise logical relation between the conservative-libertarian axis of billionaires who wish to privatize public education—notably among them Betsy DeVos, who was Secretary of Education under Trump—and the rank-and-file right-wing moms who back ‘Don’t Say Gay’ is as yet unclear,” Winter wrote in her piece, but now she has her answer: right-wing Christian nationalism.

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Editor’s Note: Republican voters deserve answers and accountability for the failed red wave.

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