Last week, nearly two dozen of the 30 school board candidates backed by Ron DeSantis in Florida won their races. The DeSantis-endorsed candidates oppose the left’s woke agenda for schools on matters like race and sexuality. They support giving parents more say in how, and to what extent, such issues will be taught to their children.
Let's talk turkey about Trump. He instinctively knew how to speak to a base that had been alienated for years. He wasn't afraid to tackle issues that traditional conservatives tiptoed around, BUT... Trump is lacking in many, many ways. He's not playing 4 dimensional chess. That's a joke. Trump is a guy who never understood the limits of his power as president or the extent of the power of the bully pulpit. He said "drain the swamp" but didn't know how the swamp operates. He gave the ultimate swamp creature, Anthony Fauci, a platform and didn't remove him from that platform even when it was obvious that Fauci only sought to undermine him. Trump got rolled by the deep state. He could have declassified every document related to the Russia collusion hoax. He could have declassified every document he took with him from the White House. It's time to move on from Trump. Let's consolidate our learnings from the Trump years and double down with DeSantis, who is a much better strategist and tactician than Trump. DeSantis went from barely winning in Florida to being extremely popular. DeSantis speaks to middle America in a way that rallies people toward him, not turn them off to him.
Yep. I taught public school a lifetime ago long enough to understand the limits of those in charge of our public schools, their often hard working dedicated practitioners on the ground, and the high walls around their perceptions of reality. These are, on the whole, really lovely people who unfortunately see right through everybody in America that isn't credentialed by the university system like they aren't even there. They almost exclusively associate with others just like them, and are completely unaware of the facts and attitudes that form our thinking. They are incurious for intellectual and cultural reasons. They often have been in this class for several generations. Only newcomers to it can see what I saw, and only now does my working class upbringing let me understand the whole structure of the thing. To them, it is the water they swim in.
They literally still do not see the resistance to this coming, and will not understand what hit them after it is over. They have a lot of power and I don't know what they will do in response. The fascist nomenclature scares me. Deeply.
Let's talk turkey about Trump. He instinctively knew how to speak to a base that had been alienated for years. He wasn't afraid to tackle issues that traditional conservatives tiptoed around, BUT... Trump is lacking in many, many ways. He's not playing 4 dimensional chess. That's a joke. Trump is a guy who never understood the limits of his power as president or the extent of the power of the bully pulpit. He said "drain the swamp" but didn't know how the swamp operates. He gave the ultimate swamp creature, Anthony Fauci, a platform and didn't remove him from that platform even when it was obvious that Fauci only sought to undermine him. Trump got rolled by the deep state. He could have declassified every document related to the Russia collusion hoax. He could have declassified every document he took with him from the White House. It's time to move on from Trump. Let's consolidate our learnings from the Trump years and double down with DeSantis, who is a much better strategist and tactician than Trump. DeSantis went from barely winning in Florida to being extremely popular. DeSantis speaks to middle America in a way that rallies people toward him, not turn them off to him.
Yep. I taught public school a lifetime ago long enough to understand the limits of those in charge of our public schools, their often hard working dedicated practitioners on the ground, and the high walls around their perceptions of reality. These are, on the whole, really lovely people who unfortunately see right through everybody in America that isn't credentialed by the university system like they aren't even there. They almost exclusively associate with others just like them, and are completely unaware of the facts and attitudes that form our thinking. They are incurious for intellectual and cultural reasons. They often have been in this class for several generations. Only newcomers to it can see what I saw, and only now does my working class upbringing let me understand the whole structure of the thing. To them, it is the water they swim in.
They literally still do not see the resistance to this coming, and will not understand what hit them after it is over. They have a lot of power and I don't know what they will do in response. The fascist nomenclature scares me. Deeply.