NBC’s Collins: QAnon Are Infiltrating School Boards and Riling the Base with CRT

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COLLINS: "But then in the last three or four months, critical race theory is at this and a lot of the people who are there for mask stuff then got their — you know, they just added something to it. They added critical race theory stuff to it as well. They were like, 'Hey, if we can get this person off the school board, get one of our own onto the school board, it doesn’t really matter to me if we’re adding talk about race to this thing, we really just want the masks over with.' And that happens, by the way, vice versa. Some people are there to talk about critical race theory and then they end up really angry about masks. And what we have seen recently is QAnon followers as well, going to these meetings, seeing these big public spectacles, some of these things are on YouTube, so they can go up there and give these big speeches about the cabal or something, and they can say, 'Hey, we need to rile people up. We need to get people ready to take over these school boards over the next year.' They will post that, by the way, on their Instagram later on, but that's the point. They are using Michael Flynn’s rallying cry to take over the school boards. 'Run for school board, run for public office,' he said. He said, 'We need to get involved in the education of our children.' And right now, on top of the biggest QAnon message board, that’s what you’ll see. You’ll see that quote from Mike Flynn saying, 'Run for school board.'"