Just saying they want to teach the truth about history isn't enough at this point, he said. They don't help themselves, either, by using academic phrases like "systemic racism" when people don't know what that means "and it just makes people feel dumb and accused," he said. Democrats can't let them own "the flag of parenthood," he said. Republicans plan to use the issue in 2022 elections and say they're for parents' rights, a position that plays to the center. "The efforts to take any discussion of race and turn it into 'this is part of critical race theory' - it would be brilliant if it weren't so deeply deceptive," he said. "It's branding an everyday normal position on things with something that to the ear of the average person sounds radical. "This is old-time Karl Rove type tactics," Westen said. In Virginia, GOP Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin drew applause at his campaign rallies for pledging to ban CRT, now a catch-all term for teaching about race. They've been hammering the message that "critical race theory" - an academic approach to examining racial bias - is being taught in K-12 schools, though Democrats and education leaders say that's false and that it's most often taught in law school. The challenge for Democrats is that Republicans have a running head start.
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