{"id":586282,"date":"2021-07-08T14:50:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T18:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=586282"},"modified":"2021-07-08T14:51:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T18:51:01","slug":"opinion-on-crt-defund-the-police-and-remote-learning-democrats-know-their-policies-are-unpopular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-on-crt-defund-the-police-and-remote-learning-democrats-know-their-policies-are-unpopular\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: On CRT, \u2018Defund The Police,\u2019 And Remote Learning, Democrats Know Their Policies Are Unpopular"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fopinion-on-crt-defund-the-police-and-remote-learning-democrats-know-their-policies-are-unpopular%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=586282&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\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1325940028.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Polling for the 2022 midterms must be <em>brutal<\/em> for Democrats. That\u2019s the only explanation for why they are now backtracking and gaslighting on three of their most prominent policy goals in the past year: Critical Race Theory (CRT), \u201cDefund the Police,\u201d and keeping kids out of school for pandemic-related concerns.<\/p>\n<p>In just the past month or so, Democrats who have prominently supported these issues have changed their tune, with some even pretending they never supported the unpopular policies in the first place, or accusing their opponents of being the <em>real<\/em> supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Take CRT, for example. MSNBC host Joy Reid invited author Ibram X. Kendi \u2014 perhaps the best-known figure associated with CRT and the \u201canti-racism\u201d movement \u2014 to push back on parental efforts to stop public schools from teaching CRT to their children. Kendi claimed that he does not believe that all white people are \u201cinherently racist,\u201d and if that is what schools are teaching, he \u201cwould speak out against that school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet he hasn\u2019t spoken out against any school that has perpetuated such claims, however, even though there is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/michigan-state-university-teaching-conference-includes-discussions-segregated-by-race-with-white-people-forced-to-accept-their-white-privilege\">ample<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/illinois-anti-racist-training-expecting-people-of-color-to-teach-white-people-is-covert-white-supremacy\">evidence<\/a> of schools <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ca-school-tells-third-graders-to-rank-themselves-according-to-power-and-privilege\">doing<\/a> just this.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn\u2019t the only problem with Kendi\u2019s interview, as The Daily Wire\u2019s Ben Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/msnbc-host-accuses-josh-hawley-of-misquoting-ibram-x-kendi-it-was-a-real-quote\">previously<\/a> reported. Host Joy Reid tried to claim Rep. Josh Hawley (R-MO) misquoted Kendi, when, in fact, it was a real quote. Despite what Reid tried to suggest, Kendi did previously say \u201c<em>The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reid also tried to distance Kendi from CRT, asking if he is \u201ca critical race theorist?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kendi worded his response carefully, saying he\u2019s \u201ccertainly been inspired by Critical Race Theory,\u201d but he \u201cdidn\u2019t go to law school, and so I don\u2019t necessarily identify as a critical race theorist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But just a few days earlier, Kendi absolutely accepted the notion that he was connected to CRT, saying nothing when fellow \u201cMorning Joe\u201d panelist Keisha Blain, a professor, said General Mark Milley\u2019s defense of Kendi\u2019s book was \u201cone of the most powerful speeches I have heard in defense of Critical Race Theory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Media outlets are also trying to gaslight Americans on what bans of CRT in public schools actually do. The New York Times, ABC, and others have claimed the bans, introduced and implemented by Republican lawmakers, would stop the teaching of slavery as part of American history, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/here-comes-the-critical-race-theory-gaslighting\">an absolutely false claim<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, after more than a year of Democrats, media pundits, and progressive activists cheering the \u201cDefund the Police\u201d movement, with some major cities actually voting to defund or greatly reduce funding for their police departments, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki audaciously tried to blame the Republican Party for defunding law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>At a White House press briefing, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy mentioned Biden administration advisor Cedric Richmond claiming \u201cRepublicans defunded the police by not supporting the American Rescue Plan.\u201d&nbsp;Doocy asked how that could be an argument \u201cwhen the President never mentioned needing money for police to stop a crime wave when he was selling the American Rescue Plan?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki responded:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p><em>Well, the President did mention that the American Rescue Plan, they\u2019ll \u2014 the state and local funding \u2014 something that was supported by the President, a lot of Democrats who supported and voted for the bill \u2014 could help ensure local cops were kept on the beat in communities across the country. As you know, it didn\u2019t receive a single Republican vote. That funding has been used to keep cops on the beat.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As The Daily Wire\u2019s Ryan Saavedra previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/psaki-blasted-for-deflecting-blame-for-crime-wave-by-claiming-gop-defunded-the-police\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cRepublicans opposed the American Rescue Plan because the U.S. economy was already showing signs of recovering and they argued that the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion stimulus, was irresponsible and a massive waste of taxpayer money. Inflation has skyrocketed in the months since the Democrats\u2019 stimulus bill was passed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been Democrats and Democrat-run cities who have wanted to defund the police, while demonizing law enforcement. It\u2019s clear that\u2019s an unpopular slogan, given how many progressives have tried to claim \u201cdefund\u201d doesn\u2019t really mean \u201cdefund\u201d or that they never supported such sentiment anyway. Now the Left is trying to not only backtrack on the slogan, but insist it was the <em>Republican Party<\/em> who were the real villains when it comes to police.<\/p>\n<p>Absurd.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we have Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation for Teachers, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rweingarten\/status\/1409986984479760386\">claiming<\/a> her union has \u201ctried to reopen schools safely since April 2020\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is another false claim, as emails <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/01\/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails\/\">published<\/a> by the New York Post showed the AFT lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention against fully re-opening schools for in-person teaching, even after numerous studies and experts had said schools posed little threat to students or teachers. Children are unlikely to get COVID-19, and the hyperbolic whining from teachers claiming going back to the classroom meant their deaths \u2013 even though grocery store workers had been working through the pandemic without complaining or being a major source of infections \u2013 really outraged parents.<\/p>\n<p>Children were kept from the classroom, kept from socializing with their friends and their peers. It resulted in major mental health issues for young people and lower performance and attendance. Public schools lost millions of students as parents began to homeschool or moved their children to private schools, which opened up much sooner without any significant COVID-related problems.<\/p>\n<p>Weingarten\u2019s teacher\u2019s union stood against science, common sense, and what was best for children, and now she\u2019s claiming that it was all about opening schools safely.<\/p>\n<p>It sure would be nice to see the internal polling on these issues that have caused the Left to lunge so wildly into damage control.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polling for the 2022 midterms must be brutal for Democrats. 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