Another Phony 'Conservative' Gets It All Wrong About Why Red States Are Winning in the Education Space

"When Democrats are at their best, they are performing one job: reducing inequality and making American life more just". - Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

David Brooks is the faux-conservative columnist at the New York Times...
This week, Brooks is musing about why red states are making educational gains while blue states are languishing.
No Duh. 

Brooks' analysis does not even come close to the why, but he gives it the old college try.

When Democrats are at their best, they are performing one job: reducing inequality and making American life more just. That’s what Franklin Roosevelt did with the New Deal and Lyndon Johnson tried to do with the war on poverty. That’s what Bill Clinton and Barack Obama did with their education reform policies...

No, Mr. Brooks: when Democrats are at their best, they ruin the country, and nowhere has this become more apparent than in their wholesale co-opting of the education apparatus with 

• critical race theory, 
• gender ideology, 
• diversity, equity, and inclusion, and 
• removing civics requirements so that children are not only unmoored from themselves and any sense of identity or purpose, but have no sense of belonging to the country in which they live...