More good news--Democrats face a grim future

 John Sexton:

The NY Times published a piece today taking an overview of last night’s elections. What they see is a Democratic Party that is in deep trouble because last night proved conclusively that resistance politics aimed at former President Trump are no longer enough.

For five years, the party rode record-breaking turnouts to victory, fueled by voters with a passion for ousting a president they viewed as incompetent, divisive or worse. Tuesday’s results showed the limitations of such resistance politics when the object of resistance is out of power, the failure of Democrats to fulfill many of their biggest campaign promises, and the still-simmering rage over a pandemic that transformed schools into some of the country’s most divisive political battlegrounds…

“The Democrats need to take a serious look at how we chose to engage with the Trump narrative,” said Dan Sena, a Democratic strategistwho helped the party win the House in 2018.“This was an election where the Democrats did not lean into their accomplishments either in Virginia or nationally. And as we look to 2022, we’re going to have to ask some hard questions about whether that’s the right strategy.”…

“When you look over the horizon for next year, the red wave is coming,” said Corry Bliss, a top Republican strategist working for a number of congressional candidates, who added that Democrats in Washington were not “fighting about things that normal people care about.”…

“This has been a negative Trump-focused scare tactic campaign, and I think the top line is the declining salience of that,” said Tré Easton, a senior adviser for Battle Born Collective, a progressive advocacy group. “You can’t scare people into the polls. You have to give people something to vote for.”

Aside from the quotes, the NY Times‘ analysis of the Virginia race sounds a lot like Joy Reid:

By promising at nearly every campaign stop to ban critical race theory, an advanced academic concept not taught in Virginia schools, Mr. Youngkin resurrected Republican race-baiting tactics in a state that once served as the capital of the Confederacy.

This is the same mistake that got Democrats into trouble in the first place. Critical Race Theory may not be taught in schools as an academic subject but as anyone paying attention knows, CRT has become shorthand for a collection of extreme and often illiberal views that have already dominated many college campuses and which are now making their way into K-12 schools.

Case in point, consider California’s pending plans for more equitable math education. Advice that is linked in the proposal says teachers, “must identify what it means to be an antiracist math educator.” They are advised to center “ethnomathematics” which means they should, “Identify and challenge the ways that math is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views.” This is what parents are worried about.

In July, AFT’s Randi Weingarten also claimed CRT wasn’t being taught in schools but she said that at almost the same time that the NEA was embracing CRT as an approach to teaching that needed to be defended....

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Democrats continue to use the politics of fraud and semantic arguments to try to avoid the fight of the teaching of CRT and related issues.  It is more evidence of just how determined they are to indoctrinate kids with leftist garbage.   "Anti-racist" is another example of their racist agenda.  It is part of their semantic war with the truth.