Bill Press: Latest GOP scare tactic: Critical race theory
It’s one of the oldest, most cynical games in politics: When you’re falling behind, make up some phony threat to change the subject and scare the bejesus out of people. Republicans are good at that.
A few years ago, to justify the outright racism of Trump’s Muslim ban, Republicans raised the alarm of “sharia law.” This extreme form of Islam, they warned, was sweeping the country, resulting in a flood of 200 anti-sharia bills in 40 states — when, in
