Anatomy of a Panic Featuring Chris Rufo

 

Chris Rufo was the guy who brought us the "CRT" moral panic, when he didn't actually know anything about CRT, but decided that if it made people uncomfortable, that was his angle--their discomfort, not whether the theory was right. Now I could be biased: when I see Discovery Institute and Claremont Institute in someone's bio, I immediately feel some kind of way. The Discovery Institute is the kind of people who will genuinely lie in your face that intelligent design is not some kind of creationism, when all they did is rebrand it. Claremont Institute always gives me mad "David Barton but without the ugly shirts" vibe. Historical revisionist think tankery about how maybe "Save babby makes Christofascist possible?? If states rights definitely???"