We've Got Issues

Can Republicans' latest racial panic deliver them a midterm win?

Episode Summary

Joshua Holland is joined by Jeet Heer to talk about the right's heavily astroturfed campaign to terrify their voters to the polls with the specter of "Critical Race Theory."

Episode Notes

This week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with some surprising new data on how deeply entrenched Trump's stolen election narrative has become on the right.

Then we're joined by Jeet Heer, national affairs correspondent for The Nation and Substacker, to talk about the right's heavily astroturfed campaign to terrify their voters to the polls with the specter of "Critical Race Theory." Will it work this time? It has in the past, but there are some important reasons to think it might not be the magic bullet Republicans are hoping for.

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