that is how it was framed in southlake. conservatives were not paying attention and the leftist came in and suddenly started doing this. i wanted to go back to the beginning and see the origin, the plan to impose or create diversity inclusion plan is southlake and what prompted it. it really followed a national pattern that i found copied all over the country in the trump era. after president trump was elected in 2016, in a campaign that featured a lot of language about immigrants and helped usher this kind of resurgence or more open embrace of white nationalism and we saw what happened in charlottesville. that rhetoric was trickling down into classrooms and schools all over the country. if you did a google news search in 2016, 2017, 2018 you will find dozens of articles about kids chanting build the wall at hispanic classmates or someone carving the capitol and word and meghan on school walls. all of these school districts were dealing with that in the era before the critical race theory. what happened in carol in southlak

a lot of them were actually conservative from southlake.could not just disagree about the plan but this person that presumably a lot of people know on the school board is actually your enemy or trying to do something with this secret plot. i thought that was really striking, in the book, the dynamic. one thing i was struck by is, someone who has covered school board's for a long time, they used to be rather dull places unless there was a sex ed policy or a school boundary change, these were not the most interesting meetings. sometimes the reporter is one of two or three people in the audience. when this idea of taking over school board's became this rallying cry on the right, it was almost jarring. in the book, you say alan west said the most important elected position in the united states of america is school board and then steve bannon made a similar comment. why did not take off? why school board? >> that took off in steve bannon's case particularly, because they were seeing the news reports. i think, you mentioned this idea of the schoo

, and see origin of the of the of the plan to impose or create a diversity and inclusion plan in southlake. and what prompted it and it really followed a national pattern that i, i found copied all over the country in the trump era. you know, after president trump was elected in 2016, in a campaign featured a lot of vitriolic language about immigrants and that helped usher kind of this of or more open embrace of white nationalism. and we saw what happened in charlottesville those kinds of that rhetoric was trickling down into classrooms and schools over the country. so you were seeing if you just did a news search in 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, you will find dozens of articles about, you know, kids build the wall at the hispanic classmate's or someone, you know carving the n-word and, you know, maga to each other on a school bathroom stall and. and there's data show that these types of incidents were increasingly being reported to the federal government during this period. and so, you know, all of these school districts were dealing with that. and in the era before, the critical race theory pa