Batyar Ungar-Sargon nails it:
And here’s the crucial point: The “Critical Race Theory isn’t real” meme is not about race. It’s not about politics. It’s not even a culture war, really. It’s about class. It’s about one class—a highly-educated chattering class—using highly specialized language to tell normal parents that they lack sufficient intellectual capacity and are imagining things because they’ve been brainwashed. A highly-educated progressive media has used its educational advantage—92 percent of American journalists have a college degree—to gaslight working-class parents of all races. Under the guise of fighting racism.
It’s no wonder Youngkin did better with working-class voters of all races. And not just better than McAuliffe, but better than Trump. And he did well elsewhere, too; 14 percent of black women—double Trump’s showing in Virginia—backed the Republican candidate.
Nor is this phenomenon limited to Virginia. The Republican gubernatorial candidate in New Jersey came much closer to winning than pundits expected. And, in Minneapolis, the epicenter of the “racial reckoning” that wracked the country in the summer of 2020, voters decided that they’d prefer to keep their police department, white progressives in safe neighborhoods notwithstanding.
The Democrats’ abandonment of the working class didn’t begin in the early aughts, of course; by then, the mainstream liberal media had already abandoned the cause of labor for a higher-class reader, an erasure that was mirrored in the disastrous Clinton-era policies that decimated manufacturing and created a downward spiral for working-class families.
The irony is that the class warfare being perpetrated by the Democrats and their allies in the media in the name of racial justice not only paved the way for Youngkin’s victory, but the economic populism he was offering: Youngkin’s “day one game plan” includes a mix of spending and tax cuts, just as his school proposal combines banning Critical Race Theory along with expanding Advanced Placement classes statewide and pay hikes for public school teachers.
It was just the latest example of how the sneering of elite media, masquerading as a social justice fight against racism, is actually class consolidation in political, even race-baiting, garb. And voters have long since learned to tune it out.
Go here to read the rest. As I have noted repeatedly, contemporary Leftism is largely about upper class, in economic terms only, whites, pouring vials of wrath on the heads of whites they consider to be beneath them, and feeling virtuous while engaging in raw hate. This act has been going on since the sixties of the last century, has recently been taken to absurd extremes and now explicitly involves the indoctrination of the kids of the whites held in contempt to hate the color of their skins. Tell people you hate them often enough, and eventually they are going to conclude you are serious and act accordingly.
“Highly-educated”. Well-soused in academia, perhaps. Given, however, their increasingly apparent disconnect with anything approaching reality, coupled with an abysmal lack of wisdom, I doubt that “highly-educated” applies.