After I first listened to Chris Rufo’s infamous speech at Hillsdale College, something clicked. I saw the plan for the demolition of public education. Rufo spelled it out. He is a proponent of universal school choice, and he says the way to reach that goal is to create universal distrust of public schools. This is why we hear blarney about public school teachers “grooming” their students and indoctrinating them. It’s all part of the plan to create “universal distrust.” It’s a plan to privatize public education by disseminating lies and defaming teachers.
Peter Greene listened to Rufo’s speech and analyzes it closely. Please read to see the master plan, the hoax about “critical race theory,” and the rightwing plot to privatize public funding for education.
And though Peter says he summarized the speech to save you time, I urge you to listen to it. It’s scary.

Rufo, MOVE to Russia!
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Hillsdale brings together right wing Catholics and evangelicals.
One of the questions that should be asked is, do Rufo and Ryan Girdusky (founder of the 1776 PAC) want omitted from classes the history told in a book review at Catholic World Report, 12-3-2020, about “the integral role that Southern Catholics played in promoting the Confederate cause during the Civil War.” The book informs readers that “Jefferson Davis, though a protestant, was educated by Dominicans and had a life long sympathy for the Church.”
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Hillsdale brings together right wing Catholics and evangelicals.
One of the questions that should be asked is, do Rufo and Ryan Girdusky (founder of the 1776 PAC) want the following info omitted from classes? Catholic World Report, 12-3-2020, posted about “the integral role that Southern Catholics played in promoting the Confederate cause during the Civil War.” CWR’s book informs readers that “Jefferson Davis, though a protestant, was educated by Dominicans and had a life long sympathy for the Church.”
The Cushwa site informs readers that the Catholic church was the first and largest slaveowner in the Americas.
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Thank you for this excellent analysis of the radical right. Everyone should take the time understand this extremist mindset. These radicals are deeply delusional and dangerous, and they are about to shut down our government for all of the unsubstantiated claims that Rufo makes. Greene does an excellent job connecting the dots in the Christo-fascist belief system, and his conclusion is spot-on. These folks are in serious need of some medication, and they should not be infecting our government with their twisted, conspiratorial theories. They need to be stopped. Democrats must heed the call.
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In my naive, little white world, I never imagined that such people could exist. I never dreamed that I was a sexual predator grooming my neighbors’ children to be…what I’m not sure. Who knew teaching in public schools borders on satanic?
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6-8-2023, “Funded by Dark Money, Chris Rufo’s NonProfit Stokes the Far Right’s Culture War.” (Intercept)
Included in the article is info about funding from anti-evolution groups. That camp is exclusive to religionists. Three things that are true about patriarchal religion, women are viewed as less than men, its history in the US is one of abominable treatment of Black people and native Americans and, it is authoritarian.
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Sounds right. We have a significant number of conspiracy theory types who believe crazy things. Trump called them “the uneducated” and Hillary called “deplorables.” Some of them leave comments here.
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What these delusional extremists need is a deprogramming camp usually reserved for cult survivors. Their views mostly benefit a straight, white male vision for the country, and it is not a point of view that the Jesus in ‘The Bible’ would support.
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Right. If you ask yourself, “what would Jesus do,” it would not agree with what Trump, DeSantis, and Abbott have done.
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I think such people can be convinced of anything. They listen with one ear. They are people who feel powerless. Their private bugaboos might be anything from about white straight traditions losing traction, to govt regs hamstringing their livelihood, to the demise of Christianity in the public square, to putting women back in their place, whatever. They half-hear political diatribe and mentally fill in the blanks to suit their bogeymen, rationalizing any cognitive dissonance. What they’re hearing loud and clear is a promise for power and vengeance.
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Rufo is using 1968 critical hippie theory. Ronald Reagan scapegoated protesters of the War in Vietnam as his reason to end tuition free higher education and decimate k-12 funding in California when he was governor during the war. I’m not too sure the cultural or ideological parts of that war ended in 1975. The war protest at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention should prolly not be the main determinant of education policy in 2023.
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Rufo’s argument that 1968 hippies have a monopoly over education is, oh, can you please think of a word to describe it? On so many levels. So many.
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Fascists are cowards at heart, and they are blinded by ideology and fear, and they are really stupid, and stupid people simplify things in really stupid ways. Rufo has been successful, but he is not bright.
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The right wing sheeple are gullible and easily misled.
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Yeah. It doesn’t take a genius to do it. Same with Hitler. A common thug.
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This attack on public schools was, in fact, orchestrated, and the people who orchestrated it are evil. They have done enormous harm.
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Traitor Trump (TT) is doing the same thing, creating universal distrust among his MAGA lunatics of the legal system, the U.S. Constitution, anyone that didn’t vote for him, and anyone that dares to stand up to him no matter who they are or what party they belong to. TT even attacks dead people.
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Just curious what the list would look like if blog commenters and those whose opinions have been linked in the blog posts, created a ranked list of which groups (funders, etc.) had the most impact in undermining the public education model.
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Linda, NPE is working on creating such a list, annotated.
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NPE and you are amazing in your level of commitment to what may be the most consequential cause of our times.
Off topic, the novel, Lessons in Chemistry,
describes the adverse impact of the religious right on women.
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I wonder why this is not big news. Where are the large news outlets exploring the scandal? Liberal press, I guess.
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9-7-2023. The Observer (a student newspaper in Indiana)
“Notre Dame’s Religious Liberty Clinic Helps Found First Religious Charter School in Oklahoma”…. “provides legal consultation and representation”
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