Oh Dear God …
Alleged grown-up Mike Pompeo, right wing foreign policy specialist.
Pompeo, a possible 2024 GOP presidential candidate, told Semafor at the Republican Jewish Coalition conference in Las Vegas that “making sure we don’t teach our kids crap in schools” is something he would run on.
“I get asked, ‘Who’s the most dangerous person in the world? Is it Chairman Kim, is it Xi Jinping?’” said Pompeo. “The most dangerous person in the world is Randi Weingarten. It’s not a close call. If you ask, ‘Who’s the most likely to take this republic down?’ It would be the teachers’ unions, and the filth that they’re teaching our kids, and the fact that they don’t know math and reading or writing.”
“If our kids don’t grow up understanding America is an exceptional nation, we’re done,” he added. “If they think it’s an oppressor class and an oppressed class, if they think the 1619 Project, and we were founded on a racist idea — if those are the things people entered the seventh grade deeply embedded in their understanding of America, it’s difficult to understand how Xi Jinping’s claim that America is in decline won’t prove true.”
FFS. Honestly, there are no words for how incredibly deranged and absurd this is. Why not just go full -on with Mao’s “cultural revolution” and call it a day. (His wife is a perfect Madam Mao, by the way…)
Weingarten understands very well what this is all about and it’s pathetic:
“He needs to fund his campaign,” she said. “He doesn’t have a base so he is trying to get millions from the anti-union, anti-public-education billionaires like Betsy DeVos.”
He’s also angling for the far right wingnut groups like “Moms for Liberty.”
If you think the recent mild distancing from Trump means a repudiation of the authoritarian white nationalist agenda, think again. Team Normal is going to try to out-Trump Trump.