Among the ranks of the political right, there’s a virtually endless list of senseless talking points, fueled by petty resentment, lobbed toward those pesky, un-American “libs.”
The radical left, so it goes, wants a horde of immigrants to invade and overtake us; they want “transgender for everybody,” so says President Donald Trump; by inviting Muslims into the country, there’s a conspiracy to enact Sharia law against this great Christian nation; the left, supposedly, is even waging a war on Christmas.
But perhaps the frontline of these attacks is in the classroom. For some time, the Republican Party — especially in its modern form, now that its fringe in the MAGA movement has taken over — has been obsessed over public school curricula, content in school libraries and public education policy more broadly.
We saw this locally last year when the right-wing fringe group Moms for Liberty exerted its undue influence over the Hamilton County Board of Education and successfully, for a time, pushed — due to the vendor’s support of LGBTQ+ students — for the end of supplementary mental health services for students.
(Several weeks later, the school board reinstated the contract, while also partnering with other vendors seemingly more friendly to anti-LGBTQ+ parents.)