"After white supremacists spilled blood in defense of keeping up Confederate statues in 2017, the GOP candidate for governor of Virginia, Ed Gillespie, said the monuments should stay up as a matter of heritage and history.
...The racially loaded "Culture Wars" campaign, straight from then-President Trump’s playbook, gave Gillespie a push, but he ultimately lost the race to Democrat Ralph Northam.
Now Virginia Republicans are back with a new and improved "Culture Wars" campaign for 2021. The closing argument is once again full of racial division — but this time it is dressed up as a defense of little children.
The rallying cry is "Parents’ Rights."
Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate, calls the Republican message a “racist dog whistle.”
...Polls show the big money coming from the right has resulted in the "Parents’ Rights" movement gaining traction among white voters.
But this movement is not about parents.
It is about exciting the far-right base by stirring up racial division.
If it works, Republicans will have reason to continue down this dark path to winning elections...Read all.
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