“I think that the panic over CRT can be seen as part of this underlying anxiety about the status of White Americans in a changing country.”

“Critical race theory is not anti-patriotic,” Kimberlé Crenshaw told CNN’s Jason Carroll. “In fact, it is more patriotic than those who are opposed to it — because we believe in the 13th and the 14th and the 15th Amendments. We believe in the promises of equality. And we know we can’t get there if we can’t confront and talk honestly about inequality.”

Analysis: The engineered panic over critical race theory, explained

Republicans have disfigured CRT -- an academic frame that scholars have been using in graduate-level courses for decades to interrogate how the legal system entrenches racism -- into a catchall to describe things they don’t like.

George Washington in his farewell address spoke of putting party before country: “It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.”

SE Cupp: This is a total collapse of the Republican Party - CNN Video

CNN’s SE Cupp says by pushing legislation in an attempt to make it more difficult to vote, Republicans have shown they are all out of ideas.