Moms for Liberty Wants to Usher in an American Caste System
Moms for Liberty may have lost a few battles, but they’re still winning the culture war, according to Tamara Gilkes Borr, a U.S. policy correspondent at The Economist.
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It may appear that right-wing advocacy group Moms for Liberty is losing many of its most high-profile battles at the moment—especially its recent spate of races for school board seats—but make no mistake, they’re still winning the culture war, according to Tamara Gilkes Borr, a U.S. policy correspondent at The Economist.
Despite the fact that the group’s preferred local candidates did not perform well during the most recent election cycle, Moms for Liberty’s overtly anti-public school rhetoric has fully seeped into the Republican Party and its platform, making the idea of a publicly funded school system “sound a lot like public health care or public transportation, right? And that is what’s really happening here,” Gilkes Borr said on this week’s episode of The New Abnormal.
“And unfortunately if we look at public health care and public transportation in many places and many cities in this country, that means for poor people only.”
Host Danielle Moodie added: “What you have laid out is a permanent working class, a caste system.” In other words, she said, America may be losing “what makes us different than other countries.”
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