Grand Canyon Times

If the Republican Party is to have any hope of winning the future and reversing America’s decline, then it can only do so by continuing to gradually turn the tides of the culture war against the Left.

The elections of 2022, 2024 and beyond will be won not on the tedious policy issues but on the cultural battles that continue to dominate our political landscape.

Even as the current media focus returns to more conventional political issues such as foreign wars and economic crises like inflation, one of the greatest threats to America remains the indoctrination in the public education system. Nothing represents this threat more comprehensively than critical race theory.

Some well-meaning critics of critical race theory find themselves bogged down in attempts to explain it in equally scholarly terms, which runs the risk of most voters not clearly understanding just how much of a threat the concept truly is.

To this end, the left actually thrives on over-explaining the theory, with such ambiguous terms as “systemic racism,” so that any drawn-out discussions about it leave voters more confused rather than concerned.

In May of 2021, even before he had declared his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, Blake Masters declared at a rally that critical race theory is, most simply, “anti-white racism." 

“All it does is teach kids to identify in racial terms, right?” Masters said. “You are good or bad, depending on what you look like. At this point, it is straight-up anti-white racism.”

Masters said critical race theory is toxic.

“I don’t think we’re allowed to say that. But let’s call it what it is,” he added. “It does not belong in our schools.”

One year later, Masters has not changed his tone or rhetoric.

At a meeting of the Sun City Republican Club in January, he doubled down on that key phrase that summarizes the true meaning of critical race theory: anti-white racism. He even noted that when he was preparing to use that talking point, “some of my consultants didn’t want me to do it.”

And the Left wasted no time in trying to neuter this powerful line of attack before it could have serious political repercussions.   

Democrats, ever since the Virginia elections last November, have scrambled to dismiss critical race theory as nothing more than a figment of the GOP’s imagination. President Joe Biden’s newly minted minister of truth, Nina Jankowicz, said as much back in October, when she claimed that critical race theory is nothing more than “one of those hot-button issues that the Republicans and other disinformers, who are engaged in disinformation for profit, have seized on.”

But even in the face of inevitable criticism from the left for daring to call out critical race theory for what it really is, Masters persevered and continues to make that statement to this day.

He realizes that we must stop the teaching of critical race theory or face the devastating real-world consequences when the ideology moves from the classroom to the workplace.

Masters first proved his prescience in calling out critical race theory long before the GOP hitched its wagon to the trend.

Now, by going further than perhaps anyone else in accurately and simply describing what it really means as an ideology, he is once again proving why he is by far the best candidate for the U.S. Senate seat in Arizona this year.