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JD Vance and Christian Nationalism

Vance advances school privatization agenda in PA event

Peter Greene reports in detail on JD Vance’s comments accusing public school teachers of being Marxist indoctrinators who don’t teach math or reading but are big on teaching America hating.

As Greene notes:

Vance just spoke at a Christian nationalist rally in Monroeville (a Pittsburgh suburb), and some of it was about education.

Greene notes the following remarks from Vance’s appearance:

Some of the stuff that they’re teaching in American schools in 2024, that that’s not just liberalism that is crazy and we’ve got to get it out of our schools or it’s going to poison the minds of our young people.

And, well, it’s just bizarre.

But not if you take it in the context of JD Vance and Donald Trump advancing a Christian Nationalist agenda.

Not because either of them actually care about advancing a Christian takeover of American institutions – but because acting like they are all-in helps them win the votes of the evangelicals that do.

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A Note on Childless Teachers

The race to the White House takes an odd turn

JD Vance (Donald Trump’s running mate) just won’t stop attacking people who don’t have children.

And he won’t stop causing problems for the ticket – which has enough problems at the top.

Peter Greene takes a look at the latest dustup over remarks Vance made about teachers who don’t have children of their own.

Yet another piece of J. D. Vance foolishness has surfaced, this one a 2021 audio in which he tries to get in a dig at Randi Weingarten by saying that teachers without children , well–

You know, so many of the leaders of the left, and I hate to be so personal about this, but they’re people without kids trying to brainwash the minds of our children. And that really disorients me and it really disturbs me…

It’s a bullshit argument, not the least because it assumes that adult human beings are incapable of caring about children unless they’ve birthed one. Too bad for you, every nun and priest ever. Not to mention that back in the day, pregnancy and motherhood quickly disqualified women from teaching.

It seems there’s a lot that disorients and disturbs Vance – including, in the past, his current running mate.

Now, though, Vance sees Trump as a possible ticket to power – either as the actual Vice President or as someone who becomes a candidate for President in 2028 should Trump lose this year.

Trouble is, this trial isn’t going so well for Vance.

He’s already attacked childless cat ladies – and now, he’s going after teachers who do not have children of their own.

It will be interesting to see what surfaces next.

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