{"id":56161,"date":"2021-07-10T15:17:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T15:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=56161"},"modified":"2021-07-10T15:17:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T15:17:43","slug":"the-southern-strategy-goes-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=56161","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Southern Strategy Goes to School&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bearingdrift.com\/2021\/07\/08\/the-southern-strategy-goes-to-school\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-southern-strategy-goes-to-school\" target=\"_blank\">Bearing Drift<\/a>: &#8220;Lee Atwater\u2019s strategy in this quotation from Alexander Lamis\u2019s 1984 book,\u00a0<em>The Two-Party South,<\/em>\u00a0is on full display in the current Republican apoplectic aneurysm over Critical Race Theory (CRT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Sir Winston Churchill is credited with saying, \u201cNever let a good crisis go to waste.\u201d&nbsp; Apparently, if there isn\u2019t a crisis to use, the modern GOP will simply create one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a long history of success using this strategy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Busing<br>-Welfare mothers<br>-Crack babies<br>-Super predators<br>-Willie Horton<br>-Birtherism<br>-Confederate statues<br>-Black Lives Matter<br>-Critical Race Theory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The names change, but the strategy remains. The strategy, however, is not racism; that is merely the tool. The strategy is fear.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bearing Drift: &#8220;Lee Atwater\u2019s strategy in this quotation from Alexander Lamis\u2019s 1984 book,\u00a0The Two-Party South,\u00a0is on full display in the current Republican apoplectic aneurysm over Critical Race Theory (CRT). As Sir Winston Churchill is credited with saying, \u201cNever let a good crisis go to waste.\u201d&nbsp; Apparently, if there isn\u2019t a crisis to use, the modern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56162,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56161\/revisions\/56162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}