I still think that McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate will win there, but it will be close.
I write primarily though, to note that any "white backlash" -- against a theory that is not being taught at all in the local public schools. . . ought to be called by its proper name: RACISM. Quoting, now:
. . .“The operative word is not critical,” Sabato said. “And it’s not theory. It’s race. What a shock, huh? Race. That is what matters. And that’s why it’s sticks.
“There’s a lot of, we can call it white backlash, white resistance, whatever you want to call it. It has to do with race. And so we live in a post-factual era. . . It doesn’t matter that [CRT] isn’t taught in Virginia schools. It’s this generalised attitude that whites are being put upon and we’ve got to do something about it. We being white voters. . . .”
And, ironically, the fact that at least some white people prefer to refer to this sort of irrational fear-mongering as 'white backlash' is itself a fairly strong proof. . . that CRT has it down, just about right.
White people, or at least some of them, are unable (and in fact unwilling) to see themselves as anything other than long-suffering saints and heroes. And these greivance peddling pro-Tangerine ultra-right white GOP candidates will be the death of our fragile Union, I fear. Wake up, people -- on to a win, in Virginia (though it may take weeks until the results are know with certainty).
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