While the president called for 'patriotic education' and a 'pro-American curriculum in the nation's schools, opponents cast Trump as a struggling candidate who is seeking votes by trying to divide people along racial and cultural lines.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Thursday accused Democrats and educators of attempting a"liberal indoctrination of America’s youth" through alternative views of the nation's history, while the subjects of those attacks said he is fueling racial divisions in an election year.
"Donald Trump's political career has been defined by stoking racism and hatred," said Josh Schwerin of Priorities USA Action, a political action committee that supports Democratic candidates."This is all about trying to use racism to incite the fringes of his base who he thinks can help him win an election."
At one point, Trump invoked the current campaign by talking about how crowds in Wilmington, Del., tore down a statue of Caesar Rodney, a slaveholder and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Trump attacked Biden, a Wilmington resident, for not speaking out against that statue removal.
Instead, he said, the freedoms enshrined in the Constitution – and the system of government it created –"set in motion the unstoppable chain of events that abolished slavery, secured civil rights, defeated communism and fascism, and built the most fair, equal and prosperous nation in human history."
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