Mehdi Hasan Thinks Republicans Couldnt Define Critical Race Theory If Their Lives Depended on It
Would you be willing to be arrested for something if you didn\u2019t know what it was? Would you vote against it? Would you stake your party\u2019s chances in the 2022 midterms on it? This week in Loudoun County, Virginia, a furious man was arrested for trespassing following a raucous school board meeting that erupted into protests against critical race theory and a policy on transgender students. \u201cThese people are willing to get arrested, to protest something that isn\u2019t being taught to their kids and that they couldn\u2019t define if their lives depended on it,\u201d Medhi Hasan tells co-host Molly Jong-Fast and producer Jesse Cannon on the latest episode of The New Abnormal. Then, The Washington Post\u2019s economics reporter Jeff Stein joins the episode to talk about the new bipartisan infrastructure bill that actually looks like it just might pass.
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