'This is an effort by the Left to create a day out of whole cloth to celebrate identity politics as part of its larger efforts to make Critical Race Theory the reigning ideology of our country,' Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) said Wednesday.
, with Rep. Matt Rosendale describing it as a left-wing attempt to commemorate"identity politics."
A release that accompanied Rosendale's statement went on to assert that the effort to recognize Juneteenth was intended to"make Americans feel bad and convince them that our country is evil" and was part of a"larger hard-left agenda to enshrine the racial history of this country as the prime aspect of our national story."
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