America's Cultural Revolution How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

the best thing that we have to do is to ignore even the haters on our own side, to demonstrate their impotence by being successful, by being results oriented and showing that this do nothing conservatism, which dominated the movement for many years, uh, is a total dead end and we have to move beyond it.

the story of the book is the detailed kind of secret history of the radical left long march through the institutions beginning in 1968 and continuing to the present.

if we're willing to fight, if we're willing to stand up, if we're willing to push back, we're willing to take over institutions and govern them unapologetically and orient public schools, public universities, government agencies to the values that we hold most dear. Um, we can take this country back.

the control of education was really the primary goal of the radical left in the mid and late to late 20th century.

they actually want to turn kids into revolutionaries.

The roots are much deeper than anyone really knows. And what I've tried to detail in the book is the genealogy of the D.I. business. It started in the 1970s as neo-Marxist intellectuals around around the country had failed to achieve their political objectives in the riots of the 1960s, the student protests in the early 1970s.

When these programs were ubiquitous, it was every company, school, church, government agency teaching the catechism of critical race theory. America's systemically racist. White people are inherently privileged and oppressive and minorities need to be treated unequally as a group awarded special advantages by the government in order to equalize group outcomes.

Robin DiAngelo, Ibram Kendi, Black Lives Matter have been totally discredited. And now we have to actually make these policy changes.

And it requires moving pieces of legislation through state legislatures and hopefully one day power shifts through the Congress and to the president's desk for signature.

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Christopher Rufo, his book is America's culture revolution how the radical left conquered everything

I was saying that the book, from my perspective, is extraordinarily well done. There's clearly a lot of talent went into it. I think the writing, the storytelling, the research are all impressive.

The craft is something that's really important and often is invisible for a general audience. They feel like, okay, this is a good book. I like it. It's fun. It's good pacing.

The main storyline in the book is tracing the arc of ideological development on the far left from the 1970s to the present, more or less.

For all of their faults, Davis, Cleaver, referring to Angela Davis, and black revolutionaries at least grappled with and appealed to the black lumpenproletariat. The critical race theorists, on the other hand, treat them like lepers.

The major corporations have made a simple calculation. They've achieved all of their desires from the political right on economics, tax cuts, free trade, deregulation. And so, they are looking to appease their potential enemies from the political left on culture.

what I would say is that the most dangerous thing about the book is how good it is.

It's not dangerous from my perspective. To me, the worldview that it articulates and advocates for is kind of nihilistic and antisocial, but it does it in such an impressively structured way.

It's like it's a piece of intellectual heft that has to be grappled with.

And I think it's filled with contradictions that hopefully we can--some which I think you'll agree with me on. Probably. And some of which you won't, but I'm curious to see how this goes.