{"id":1556212,"date":"2022-07-15T11:33:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556212"},"modified":"2022-07-15T11:34:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:34:15","slug":"why-dems-favorite-scholar-is-running-screaming-from-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-dems-favorite-scholar-is-running-screaming-from-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Dems\u2019 Favorite Scholar Is \u2018Running Screaming From The Left\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-dems-favorite-scholar-is-running-screaming-from-the-left%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556212&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2021-10-20T194803Z_112979545_RC2VDQ9FAXI5_RTRMADP_3_NETFLIX-TRANSGENDER-1-scaled-e1657894243775.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Ruy Teixeira, a prominent scholar at the left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), is leaving his job for a conservative organization because of liberals\u2019 obsession with race, gender and other identity issues, according to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>The obsession with identity politics at CAP made it difficult for him to do work involving class and economics, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2022\/07\/15\/capital-city-ruy-teixeira-american-enterprise-institute-00045819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> the outlet, so he\u2019s leaving for the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute. Left-leaning think tanks have given in to demands of junior staffers and made it difficult for scholars to discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/07\/transgender-crimes-murder-abuse-prison-gender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crime<\/a>, immigration and other issues beyond a narrow set of default assumptions, according to Teixeira.<\/p>\n<p>The culture within left-leaning organizations \u201csends me running screaming from the left,\u201d Teixeira told Politico. \u201cIt\u2019s just cloud cuckoo land \u2026 the fact that nobody is willing to call bullshit, it just freaks me out.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ruy Teixeira:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShockingly, white college Democratic support \u2026 is actually higher than support among all nonwhite voters. This is remarkable and has much to do with anemic Hispanic support for Democrats.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qPb2oi8PLn\">https:\/\/t.co\/qPb2oi8PLn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Timothy Noah (@TimothyNoah1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimothyNoah1\/status\/1547611451333812231?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMy perspective is, the single most important thing to focus on in the social system is the economic system,\u201d he told the outlet. \u201cI\u2019m just a social democrat, man. Trying to make the world a better place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats need to win over voters who are moderate on <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/07\/wisconsin-supreme-court-sex-offender-transgender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social issues<\/a>, but staff at CAP and other think tanks aren\u2019t discussing these issues freely, he told Politico. He blames the radical culture on the left for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/10\/nicholas-roske-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Democrats<\/a>\u2018 inability to hold on to the white working class voters who supported former President Barack Obama in 2008.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s become very hard to have a conversation about race and gender and trans issues, even crime and immigration,\u201d Teixeira told Politico. \u201cYou know, \u2018How should the left handle these?\u2019 There\u2019s a default assumption about how you\u2019re supposed to talk about these things, even the language. There\u2019s a real chilling effect on all of these organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Teixeira, coauthor of the 2004 book \u201cThe Emerging Democratic Majority,\u201d helped pioneer the idea that Democrats had to win with young and diverse voters to see electoral victories, according to Politico. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/14\/google-funding-vox-media-gender-theory-language-please\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Google Funding Vox Media Effort To Normalize Fringe Gender Theory)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"1-1\">\u201cI would say that anybody who has a fundamentally class-oriented perspective, who thinks that\u2019s a more important lens and doesn\u2019t assume that any disparity is automatically a lens of racism or sexism or what have you \u2026 I think that perspective is not congenial in most left institutions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-content-child-index=\"1-1\">CAP employees were confused by Teixeira\u2019s decision to leave, according to Politico.<\/p>\n<p data-content-child-index=\"1-1\">\u201cI am confident that he is unable to give expression to a single example when either his research or his thought leadership found resistance in the organization,\u201d Patrick Gaspard, CAP president, told Politico.<\/p>\n<p data-content-child-index=\"1-1\">Teixeira did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;It\u2019s just cloud cuckoo land&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}