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The Realignment

174 | Derek Robertson: What’s Next for America’s New Culture Wars

The Realignment

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Derek Robertson, Contributing Editor to Politico Magazine, joins The Realigment to discuss what Glenn Youngkin’s Virginia gubernatorial upset means for the future of American politics, how new culture wars over race and education differ from 1990s-2000s fights of gay marriage and abortion, and how President Biden and Democrats will cope. Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit The Realignment’s Bookshop to support the show: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop

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0:00.0

Marshall and Saga here, welcome back to the Realignment.

0:04.0

It is in fact false that your fourth grader is going into class and having an hour a day

0:15.6

after between their grammar and their math lesson where it's like, okay, now it's CRT

0:20.2

time.

0:21.2

Everybody open up your like Derek Bell textbook and we're going to learn about that today.

0:24.6

Like, that does not happen.

0:27.0

So what does happen and I think that liberals who support this should accept it and explain

0:33.9

it thoroughly and advocate for it if they think it is a good thing, which many of them do,

0:38.7

is that those ideas are incredibly influential in the professional class world that creates

0:46.5

public school curriculums in the education world.

0:50.3

In the diversity and equity inclusion consultant world, which almost every, you know, not,

0:56.0

I won't say almost every, I'll say in the school districts that are wealthy and liberal

1:00.8

and tend to make news, almost every one of those school districts has a DEI consultant,

1:04.8

I probably have some kind of staff.

1:07.4

Just as it's disingenuous to say, you know, it's kindergarten CRT story hour, it's also

1:12.3

disingenuous to say that these ideas don't have any influence in schools because they

1:16.2

surely do.

1:24.0

You can see this if you're watching on YouTube and you will not be able to hear this or see

1:29.2

this on the audio version.

1:31.0

We have a special guest who's joined us for this intro out for taping.

1:34.0

Our new dog, Golda is very loud and barks.

1:37.7

So she is joining the reporting.

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