{"id":972887,"date":"2021-11-05T15:28:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T19:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=972887"},"modified":"2021-11-05T15:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T19:28:41","slug":"teen-vogue-va-gop-win-due-to-whitelash-incendiary-race-baiting-propaganda-dems-not-progressive-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teen-vogue-va-gop-win-due-to-whitelash-incendiary-race-baiting-propaganda-dems-not-progressive-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Vogue: VA GOP Win Due to \u2018Whitelash,\u2018 \u2018Incendiary Race-Baiting Propaganda\u2019 \u2014 Dems Not Progressive Enough"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fteen-vogue-va-gop-win-due-to-whitelash-incendiary-race-baiting-propaganda-dems-not-progressive-enough%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=972887&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\/11\/GettyImages-1130058832-e1636132404180-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>In light of Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin\u2019s Tuesday win against former governor Terry McAuliffe, <\/span><i><span>Teen Vogue<\/span><\/i><span> claimed conservatives are \u201cactively building a movement around whitelash\u201d and \u201cincendiary race-baiting propaganda,\u201d as Democrats abstain from \u201cfocusing on what actually makes them different\u201d and fail to \u201cmake a compelling argument about why they should win,\u201d blaming their losses on having not been progressive <\/span><i><span>enough<\/span><\/i><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/virginia-election-2021-results\"><span>piece<\/span><\/a><span>, published in <\/span><i><span>Teen Vogue<\/span><\/i><span> on Wednesday, columnist Lexi McMenamin argued that Democrats \u201cneed to prioritize a progressive future over reminding voters of our recent Trump-era past.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.3770491803279\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OpEd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OpEd<\/a>: &#8220;Democrats are still banking on not being the Republicans without emphasizing or focusing on what actually makes them different. Voters aren\u2019t finding it convincing.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wP7gsCwKdj\">https:\/\/t.co\/wP7gsCwKdj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Teen Vogue (@TeenVogue) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeenVogue\/status\/1455966631805521925?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Observing that pundits have started \u201cblaming anything from an \u2018enthusiasm gap\u2019 to (predictably) progressives\u201d after a \u201crough showing for Democrats on the national stage,\u201d she claimed that Democrats knew there was a \u201cdecent shot\u201d McAuliffe would lose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Republicans, too, were aware of the strong possibility of a Youngkin win, according to McMenamin, because \u201cthey built their 2021 \u2014 and ultimately 2022 \u2014 strategy around the incendiary race-baiting propaganda that\u2019s fueling their attack on school boards.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThe racial and class breakdown of which voters went for Glenn Youngkin shows high numbers of white women without a college education voting Republican, a holdover trend from the Trump years taken to new heights,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Attributing Youngkin\u2019s win to \u201cpropaganda and rhetoric\u201d on the part of Republicans, she accused conservatives of embracing \u201cwhitelash,\u201d a term connoting backlash by white people against the success of black people and popularized by CNN anchor Van Jones in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2016\/11\/08\/van-jones-this-election-was-a-whitelash-in-part\/\">description<\/a> of Donald Trump\u2019s election victory following former-President Barack Obama\u2019s presidency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cConservatives have built and are actively building a movement around whitelash,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p><span>Stating \u201cthere\u2019s nothing more historically American than racist dog whistles being used by white men to attain power,\u201d the <\/span><i><span>Teen Vogue<\/span><\/i><span> columnist then claimed Republicans have \u201cframed their fight as for a change from the status quo,\u201d while Democrats abstained from \u201cfocusing on what actually makes them different.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDemocrats failed to make a compelling argument about why they should win,\u201d she argued.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Quoting a joint statement from social justice groups, McMenamin said: \u201cThis should be a wake-up call for Democrats: Give people something to vote for or watch yourselves become the very thing they resoundingly vote against.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Noting the recent Virginia governor\u2019s race came down to roughly 70,000 votes, she said it was \u201ctoo close to leave it to a cheap, tired campaign message.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is all on top of Democrats\u2019 favorite way to shoot themselves in the foot: Blaming the left while explicitly trying to tank their candidates and campaigns,\u201d she wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, McMenamin argued, wherever Democrats \u201cdidn\u2019t waste their time getting in the left\u2019s way, the left \u2014 and a more inclusive future \u2014 won,\u201d noting that candidates who ran on \u201cexplicitly progressive policy platforms\u201d were most successful:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><span>Michelle Wu became the first Asian-American, first person of color and first woman mayor of Boston; Shahana Hanif became the first Muslim woman elected to New York City Council; [and] Abdullah Hammoud was elected the first Arab American mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, the \u201cArab capital of North America.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>McMenamin concluded by warning against blaming progressives for the recent Democrat loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201c[D]on\u2019t let this loss be blamed on progressives pushing for too much,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThe Democrats have no one to thank for their losses but themselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>McMenamin, a contributing politics editor at <\/span><i><span>Teen Vogue<\/span><\/i><span>, has a history of controversial statements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In September, she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/haiti-border-patrol-whips-refugees\"><span>falsely claimed<\/span><\/a><span> that \u201cU.S. border agents on horseback are whipping at Haitian asylum seekers carrying plastic bags of food and clothing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In August, she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/mask-mandates-dress-codes\"><span>argued<\/span><\/a><span> that mask mandates in schools \u201cdon\u2019t infringe on students\u2019 freedom,\u201d whereas supposedly racist and sexist school dress codes do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[D]ress code punishments are some of the more obvious \u2014 and normalized \u2014 examples of gender discrimination in schools,\u201d she wrote. \u201cDress codes are disproportionately applied to and enforced on students of color and women-identified students.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe right for students to present themselves how they choose is one worth fighting for and defending,\u201d she added. \u201cThe right to get others sick is not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In March, after Arizona Democrat Senator Kyrsten Sinema thumbed-down a provision for an incremental raise towards a $15 minimum wage during the COVID-19 relief bill vote, McMenamin <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/kyrsten-sinema-minimum-wage-feminism\"><span>argued<\/span><\/a><span> that while misogyny is \u201copenly baked\u201d into Republican politics, the Democratic Party doesn\u2019t \u201cactually practice\u201d progressive feminist politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cElecting women is supposed to be the real achievement for feminism,\u201d she wrote. \u201cHowever, the women whose humanity the Democratic establishment seem to most care about preserving are privileged white women, which hardly differentiates them from their legislators across the aisle.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuaklein_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoshuaKlein<\/a><\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin\u2019s Tuesday win against former governor Terry McAuliffe, Teen Vogue claimed conservatives are \u201cactively building a movement around whitelash\u201d and \u201cincendiary race-baiting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"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-972887","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\/972887","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\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972887\/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=972887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}