Beginning early this century, younger voters began giving Democrats significant margins in election after election-margins that were largely impervious to economic and political developments.
If anything, Republicans should be far more worried about their standing with young voters than they are. Those fears of long-term electoral doom are not unfounded. At the core of this project is a desperate, unfocused terror that children are being brainwashed to 'hate America' and that Republicans could be competitive with under-29 voters if schools just taught blind patriotism and the same-shall we say "abridged"?-version of U.S. New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait argues that DeSantis is conducting "a systematic attack on African American political power." That's unquestionably true for his record in office, but what really ties his toxic education agenda together is a desperate and doomed effort to arrest the GOP's slide with young voters.Īs a top-tier presidential candidate and the party's heir apparent to former President Donald Trump, DeSantis gets the most attention for his war on intellectual and academic freedom, but it is nevertheless a party-wide project being pursued by both elected officials across the country and astroturfed community groups seeking to ban books, intimidate teachers and strip professors of their autonomy to teach about issues of race and gender identity.
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Ron DeSantis squares off with the College Board over Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies, continues to lead the movement to muzzle free speech in schools and prepares to transform the state's public colleges and universities into taxpayer-funded versions of far-right Liberty University, it is worth asking if there is anything connecting these seemingly disparate maneuvers.
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