Ron DeSantis has ranted about “indoctrination” in the classroom, meaning instruction about the brutal facts of racism in American history. He promoted legislation to stop anti-racist teaching, which he calls WOKE.
Florida teachers are now subject to state-sponsored indoctrination. This is thought control.
Several South Florida high school educators are alarmed that a new state civics initiative designed to prepare students to be “virtuous citizens” is infused with a Christian and conservative ideology after a three-day training session in Broward County last week. Teachers who spoke to the Herald/Times said they don’t object to the state’s new standards for civics, but they do take issue with how the state wants them to be taught. “It was very skewed,” said Barbara Segal, a 12th-grade government teacher at Fort Lauderdale High School. “There was a very strong Christian fundamentalist way toward analyzing different quotes and different documents. That was concerning.”
The civics training, which is part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Civics Literacy Excellence Initiative, underscores the tension that has been building around education and how classrooms have become battlegrounds for politically-contentious issues.
In Florida, DeSantis and the Republican-led Legislature have pushed policies that limit what schools can teach about race, gender identity and certain aspects of history. Those dynamics came into full view last week, when trainers told Broward teachers the nation’s founders did not desire a strict separation of state and church, downplayed the role the colonies and later the United States had in the history of slavery in America, and pushed a judicial theory, favored by legal conservatives like DeSantis, that requires people to interpret the Constitution as the framers intended it, not as a living, evolving document, according to three educators who attended the training.
“It is disturbing, really, that through these workshops and through legislation, there is this attempt to both censor and to drive or propagandize particular points of view,” said Richard Judd, 50, a Nova High School social studies teacher with 22 years of experience who attended the state-led training session last week.
A review of more than 200 pages of the state’s presentations show the founding fathers’ intent and the “misconceptions” about their thinking were a main theme of the training. One slide underscored that the “Founders expected religion to be promoted because they believed it to be essential to civic virtue.”
Without virtue, another slide noted, citizens become “licentious” and become subject to tyranny. Another slide highlights three U.S. Supreme Court cases to show when the “Founders’ original intent began to change.”
That included the 1962 landmark case that found school-sponsored prayer violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment, which Judd said trainers viewed as unjust. At one point, the trainers equated it to the 1892 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. [Editor’s note: I think they mean Plessy v. Ferguson of 1896, which upheld separate-but-equal segregation by race.]
“Ending school prayer was compared to upholding segregation,” Judd said. In other words, he said, trainers called both those rulings unjust. On slavery, the state said that two-thirds of the founding fathers were slave owners but emphasized that “even those that held slaves did not defend the institution.”
This is one of the slides shown during the Florida Department of Education’s training series for civics and government teachers. DeSantis’ administration has spent nearly $6 million to train public school teachers across the state on how to teach civics as part of the governor’s initiative. The first training sessions were June 20-22, at Broward College in Davie. Teachers are in Hillsborough County are training this week. The civics training is the latest effort in a long line of education policies that aims to fight what DeSantis and conservative education reformers say are “woke ideologies” in public schools. It also provides a snapshot of how national groups, including Hillsdale College, a politically influential private Christian college in southern Michigan, are working with the DeSantis administration to reshape education in the state.
The goal is to put a greater emphasis on civics than on socially divisive issues such as race and gender identity, which DeSantis has said is an effort to reorient teaching away from “indoctrination and back towards education.” But to several educators who went through the state’s training it felt like a broader effort to impose a conservative view on historical events. “We are constantly under attack, and there is this false narrative that we’re indoctrinating children, but that is nothing compared to what the state just threw in new civic educators’ faces. That’s straight-up indoctrination,” said Segal, a 46-year-old teacher with 19 years of experience.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article262941378.html#storylink=cpy
Of course he does. He is betting on the minority of American voters putting him in the White House for life in 2024. No one will cure the problems with the electoral college that has been dysfunctional since a few votes in FL gave us W.
Modern Fascists are careful to appear legitimate, even as they dis-member democratic principles.
Teachers in Florida who are speaking out against DeSantis’ indoctrination tactics had better be careful. DeSantis and his thugs will have them arrested or, at a minimum, through the local school boards have the all of them fired for using their First Amendment rights to voice their disapproval of how he wants civics to be taught in the classroom. This is another example of what happened in German in the 1920 and 30’s.
a very frighteningly real comparison: using the schools for political ends
According to my info, ‘racism’ wasn’t a big deal until a few hundred years ago. In Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’, for example, was considered the absolute best military leader for the Venetians (I think), and the slimy scumbag was a White Italian, Iago. Back then, ‘white’ and ‘black’ were not important.
Since then, of course, ‘race’ has become more of a thing. I find it hard, at times, to understand why Slavs and Germans consider themselves different ‘races’. I also find it hard to understand why Germans considered Jews to be of a different ‘race’. After all, the Jews in Germany had almost no ‘blood’ from the Middle East. I think the term ‘racism’ is almost nonsense in today’s world. What we see is ‘ethnocentrism’.
Consider the following clip. Why are the Israelis (supposedly pro-Semitic) attacking the casket of a Palestinian-American citizen they shot? (let me point out that Palestinian Arabs are as ‘Semitic’ in terms of language (original meaning) and far more in terms of ‘racial (genetic) blood than the Ashkenazim who run Israel.
I’d like your comment on this clip, Dianne.
https://scheerpost.com/2022/07/04/in-the-wake-of-abu-aklehs-murder-media-continued-to-obscure-israeli-violence/#respond
I am not Diane, but distrust of the other is old enough and widespread enough for me in my erroneous evaluation of Judeo-Christian stories consider that this might be the actual “original sin” of humanity.
Jared Diamond comments in Guns, Germs, and Steel that his friend in Papua hated the neighboring groups that were rivals to theirs. Rivals in multi-ethnic Europe constantly fought over social differences. Fear and loathing directed at African slaves most certainly extends from the rationalizing of placing them within a peculiar institution that coexisted with the ideals of a new country that experimented with the enlightenment notions of freedom and individual importance.
We may not be naturally sinful, but distrust of the unknown aspects of our adversaries’ belief system stands out as one of the most difficult things we humans have to confront. I count myself a sinner in so many ways. If you let it be known that you do not like some group, I do not trust you. If you look like that member of the other group I know, it makes me cautious.
You haven’t read Othello recently. The fact that he is black is commented all over that play. Iago in particular uses the fact that Othello is black against him, but so do others, including Desdemona’s father. Othello is my favorite work of Shakespeare and I have read it and seen it multiple times.
Not to mention that other forms of hatred, such as Antisemitism, have existed for over 2000 years. Hatred of the “other” is certainly nothing new.
Exactly. Tribalism is extremely ancient. There is good reason to believe that it predates the emergence of humans as a distinct species. And, ofc, race is almost entirely a cultural, not a biological, phenomenon. It means almost nothing scientifically.
This is all a prelude to bringing religion back to public schools. That is the goal.
Is the “civics” aspect idiotic? Sure, but it is simply the dinner salad. The main course will be religious indoctrination.
And this Court, consulting their lame histories of Medieval Europe, will pronounce it fine.
I am old enough to have grown up under mandatory prayer in public school. It was always the Protestant version of The Lord’s Prayer. We had one Jewish kid in class. I stopped saying the prayer, in sympathy with that Jewish girl. When i turned 15, I left the Catholic church and never went back.
And I ain’t going back now. If I had school-age children, and I lived in Florida, I’d move.
“I am old enough to have grown up under mandatory prayer in public school.”
Where was this?
Right here in NYC I was there in 1962 when the two Mormon Twins in my Queens elementary school finally stopped being ridiculed for walking out during an assembly .
Engel v. Vitale (1962) SCOTUS . Vitale was the President of the NYC BOE.
Correction they were Jehovah’s Witnesses
“I am old enough to have grown up under mandatory prayer in public school.”
Where was this?
Massachusetts.
I lived in Massachusetts in second grade and remember the teacher picking a different student every day to read from the Bible—probably ‘59 or ‘60.
They didn’t do that in my schools. It was just a mandatory “Lord’s Prayer”.
It’s not been that long ago. My mom clearly remembers prayer in schools into the early 1969s in Iowa.
Not sure what you mean by “the early 1969s”.
I presume that means “earlier than the late 1969s”
But I could be wrong.
1960s. Stupid small keys on phone. Probably as late as 1965.
I was visiting a public school in Georgia in the early 2000s, and they started the day with a prayer over the public address system that ended with the words “In Jesus’s name we pray.” I read an article recently that claimed that this kind of thing has always been common in the rural South and Midwest despite Engel v. Vitale and other cases reaffirming it.
With the way things are going, all schools will soon have to say “In Justice Alto’s name we pray alito bit”
With Alito bit
With Alito bit
With Alito bit
Of praying to above
With Alito bit
With Alito bit
With Alito bit
Of Jesus’ love
Make that Alito bit of Sammy’s love, cuz Alito will have displaced Jesus from his thrown and taken up his position as God’s right hand man
I always refused to say the
Pledge of Allegiance in the morning on the basis that the intercom made it impersonal and degrading to its intent. I would have been very offended if prayer were piped in the same way.
Oddly, neither prayer nor pledge was a part of my school experience. This even though my principal, a man I later knew as an adult, was both religious and patriotic.
I neglected to credit Bob Shepherd above for his hilarious coinage ” Alitobit”
In my defense, after using Alitobit several times now, it just seems to be part of the English language.
jsrtheta-
My opinion- it’s child abuse to raise a daughter in an environment that tells her Jesus thinks women are lesser than men. And, secondly, it’s abuse to teach her that her life is subordinate to a cluster of cells fertilized by her rapist (her father or brother may be that rapist).
When you left the Church, it was statement for equality. Leaving the Church now, erodes its base and that can help save the U.S. from authoritarianism. The conservative churches use or are used to exploit Americans and to destroy liberalism and democracy.
I wouldn’t call it a statement for equality.
Newsom is right Democrats are running from the culture wars instead of fighting them. The hand wringing around the calls to de- fund the Police instead of doubling down on
Police reform. Defending Public Schools from assaults about the the teaching of CRT by pointing out no K-12 school teaches CRT may be factually accurate but is ducking the real fight. That fight is all too few Public Schools teach American History. Glossing over an abhorrent human rights record from Columbus till LBJ signed the Civil and Voting rights acts . And the backlash those two bills have generated till today. That doesn’t make us worse than any other country but certainly tarnishes our image as “a shinning city on a hill”.
Perhaps it is time to aggressively call to take tax exemptions away from religious organization. To put Demonstrators in front of Churches on Sundays till anti abortion demonstrators stop protesting at abortion Clinics in the Blue States that will still allow Abortion….
Great ad by Gavin Newsom!
Hopefully just the start
Good ideas, Joel.
Also a good idea, no people in the pews, especially no women in the pews of conservative churches.
it’s abuse to teach her that her life is subordinate to a cluster of cells fertilized by her rapist”
Cluster of cells is right.
I don’t know where these “fetuses are persons” folks get their ideas, but it is not from science.
It’s just one more example of why our country is destined for the trash heap of history.
We have a populace that is not only completely ignorant of science but doesn’t believe it even matters.
And worst of all, the population is highly superstitious believing all manner of stuff that is supported by not a single shred of evidence.
We are done for.
Among other things, our populace has a fetus fetish.
Even the Pentagon is infected with the superstitious beliefs.
The Pentagon carried out a UAP study headed by a fellow who believes he has been veritably hounded by “poltergeists”. He’s nuttier than a fruitcake, but we the taxpayers paid millions of dollars for the “study”, which explained almost none of the sightings.
https://www.science.org/content/article/pentagon-ufo-study-led-researcher-who-believes-supernatural
DeSantis would be disaster if he were to be elected president. He has learned all the divisive tricks of the trade at Trump’s knee. He is dangerous because he is smarter than Trump and just a evil, but he lacks some of Trump’s baggage. The January 6th Committee has indicated it may pursue criminal charges against Trump. If this happens, DeSantis would be the radical right’s golden boy.
DeSantis is a mean spirited propagandist who is intolerant of democracy and those that protest or disagree with him. He passed a law that allows cars to hit demonstrators that block a road. He intends to make abortion more restrictive than the current fifteen week threshold in Florida. In conjunction with the current Supreme Court, he would do everything in his power to ensure that democracy and voting are suppressed, and Republicans would maintain minority control over this country long term.
You must live in Florida, as do I. I recently retired from Broward County Public Schools, just after Covid had just hit in March of 2020. I’m so sad for my colleagues who are still in the system.
I’ve been pushing for more Civics education on the HS level for years, but not as these “indoctrinators” plan to teach it. I can’t believe I actually had to pass not only a Federal Constitution test, but also an Illinois Constitution test, before I could graduate from HS back in the early 70’s. Imagine doing that nowadays? I guess it would lower the graduation rate, and of course, we couldn’t do anything like that to harm our graduation numbers!
This wannabe Trumpster, DeSantis, is much more dangerous than his mentor, as you stated above. He & his acolytes are projecting everything that we lefties say about them. They’re shameless about it, but they know their zombie followers will just eat it up & not see the irony of how they project much of what lefties say about them. Be very careful with this guy gaining national influence!
In some states, such as Utah, passing the US citizenship test is mandatory to graduate from high school.
“Without virtue,
citizensleaders become “licentious” [ like Donald Trump] and becomesubject toa threat of tyranny [like Donald Trump]”Fixed.
Alternate spelling of licentious : liesententious (see also DeSantisententious)
Liesententious: given to excessive moralizing in a pompous , usually pseudo-religious manner based on lies
A good word for kids to know for the next national spelling bee.
DeSantisententious
DeSantis is sententious
In lying sort of way
Religiously contentious
To make the Liberals pay
Folks in southeast Ohio are in the process of trying to start one of these Hillsdale affiliated charter schools. Many of those involved have ties with a newer church that popped up about a decade ago.
https://www.socacademy.org/
The local districts down here can’t afford to lose a penny. This is Appalachia.
Fascists like DeSantis often complain about someone else brainwashing everyone that does not agree with fascists like DeSantis, while they are doing all they can to program as many easy to manipulate people as possible to think like fascists with dangerously, dumber than dumb thinking.
Most of those people that fit this profile, that fascists like DeSantis wants to be his support base, still support Traitor Trump.
That explains was DeSantis is working overtime to out trump the traitor, so he will attract as many of the fascists that support the traitor to jump from Trump’s ship of dangerous fools to his boat. I want that lunatic mob sinks that boat with DeSantis in it!
The biggest threat to fascists like DeSantis are people that are literate, read a lot, and have well developed critical thinking and problem solving skills, along with the ability to think logically and make sure their opinions are not driven by cherry-picking, conspiracy-theory-driven confirmation bias.
In less than a month, 50 years of inclusion and equal rights decisions wioed out. NOW…
The government has control over a woman’s body.
The government spends tax dollars for religious education institutions that violate federal discrimination laws.
The government allows people in authority and influence to establish isolation, bullying, and emotional stress on students because of their religion.
Now the Governor of the state of embarrassment, Florida, mandates religious indoctrination into contemporary civics.
And REWRITING HISTORY, LITERALLY.
Next? Get rid of more goverment protections with more government and judicial control (Where’s O’Henry when we need him? Or Sartre?
Title IX? (too radical). IDEA? (Too expensive). Plyler v Doe? (Easier to control those uneducated). BROWN? (white folks should not be forced to integrate).
Tip of the iceberg folks.
So will we see mass walkouts in September?
AFT, NEA, AASA, NASSP, NCSS… statements and legal fee coverage?
Letters published and signed by thousands of historians, academics, clergy, scientists…
Media exposure of silent then, silent now politicians?
(Broken record comment but I will continue to write it)
Language folks. Note how they have perverted the term “civic virtue” and turned it on its head by using pretty much the same language. Now they have be synonymous in the tiny heads of the cult.
And as Orwell pointed out back in 1948 in his 1984, and as you have pointed out as well numerous times, that’s how it works. The language of freedom is co-opted. You will be free to agree with Glorious Leader.
Yep, yep, yep.
Another version of accusing your opponent of doing what you are doing.
And the so-called liberal media helps the right wing do this. Cowards.
“What is America?” It is a country where its people cannot safely attend a parade/event in a “safe” suburb celebrating independence & freedom, because America is held hostage by politicians who bow down to the NRA & to that minority of people who loudly declare (often using force to do so) that it’s okay for ANYONE to have guns, a gross misinterpretation of a long archaic Constitutional Amendment.
“6 Dead, 24 Injured in 4th of July Parade in Highland Park, IL.”
The FBI has the gun, but not the gunman.
Estimated to be between 18-20-years-old, he is still at large, almost 5 hours later.
THAT is America.
American life is a daily lottery. I am more jaded because I seem to have actually been, at some point in the past 15-20 years, in many, many locations of recent mass shootings. Last year in central Florida I noticed an empty lot next to the hotel that seemed to be maintained. It was the site of a mass shooting at a bank. Instead of reopening, they razed the building and left a pathetic memorial.
One of the first things said after the Uvalde shootings was that Robb school would be razed so the kids wouldn’t ever have to go back into that building.
Like that fixes everything.
(I believe the same was done with Sandy Hook, & a lecture hall where students were shot down at Northern IL University was also razed.)
Like I said, fixes everything.
Yes, Retired. Exactly.
American Freedom
Freedom to die
At freedom parade?
Then Freedom’s a lie
A Freedom charade
Died on the Fourth of July
Died on the Fourth
As matter of course
Died from a shot
A gunman’s crazed plot
Died for a “Right
That ain’t even real
That is the blight
Americans feel
American Freedom (2)
The freedom to be shot
By gunmen in the streets
Is all that we have got
The “freedom of decease”*
*”Freedom of decease” (sometimes shortened to just “Free decease”) is guaranteed by the Second Amendment
“Free decease” is among the Constitution’s unenumerated rights.
Rights which the current Supreme Majority denies in the case of “freedom to control one’s own body” (for women as it relates to unwanted pregnancy)
Curiously, the Majority believe that another unenumerated right, the “freedom to choose one’s spouse” IS guaranteed by the Constitution — as long as the spouse is of the opposite sex.
Obviously, only some unenumerated rights don’t exist. And obviously, among the unenumerated rights that do exist, there are subcategories that don’t exist
As you can see, the whole “judassial Review” process is very complex, which is why it takes such brilliant Conswervative Supreme Court Justasses to thread the needle’s eye.
And of course, even though the Supreme Justasses recognize the unenumerated right of “free decease” , as Christians, they surely don’t recognize the subcategory “suicide”.
So, as I said, “Judassial Review” (named for Judas, of the New Testament) is very complex and only a brilliant legal mind could understand it.
Judassial Review
Judassial Review
To act like a Judas —
To stab (out of view) —
And claim to be Jurists
Conswervative Justice
Conswervative “justice”
Decided by Justass
Who says “You should trust us”
But acts like Augustus
Caesar Augustus. Ruler of Rome when Jesus Christ was born
Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s , but render unto Caesar that which is God’s” — Samuel Alito (aka Jesus “Alitobit” Christ)
Hat tip to Bob Shepherd for “Alitobit”
Cracks me up.
Jurrastic Park
Jurrastic Park
Jurrastic dino
Jurrastic ark
Jurrastic RINO
Misspelled Jurasstic
One r , two s’s
“As you can see, the whole “judassial Review” process is very complex. . . ”
Are you sure that isn’t the Jurassical Review???
“Indoctrination.” I love how the Republicans seem to project their own actions on to others.
It is a conscious tactic. As soon as a description or accusation is made against them, they immediately use the exact same language to characterize the “libs.” For example, as soon as the concept of fascism became broadly linked to them, all of a sudden their opponents were fascists. It’s the rubber-glue political strategy and it’s working quite effectively. Literally everything has a ready-made counter argument/attack/fact check as rapid response. Again, the whole point is to make descriptive language meaningless and malleable.
oops, posted something similar above before I read this comment.
So very true, and the so-called liberal media acts as the Republicans’ useful idiots to help them legitimize and amplify the attacks on the “libs”.
The guy arrested for the mass shooting in Highland Park is a Trump supporter who wrote a song called “I Am the Storm.”
You really have to wonder about the tats on his face, especially the big “”A” over his eye.
Does that stand for Aryan?
The “stitches” on his cheek are also similar to the crosshatch white Supremacists sign.
Or is the A for Anon, which also covers white Supremacy?
Just noticed his stage name is “A-wake”
Not only does that explain the A, but it’s creepy as well.
A-Wake, as in “a funeral ceremony””, of course.
The A is part of the word Awake, tattooed above his left eye.
Awake is a rightwing term meant to be in opposition to Woke (Awake, Not Woke is the full version).
The 47 and his style of suit are from the character Agent 47 from a videogame called Hitman.
“The guy arrested for the mass shooting in Highland Park is a Trump supporter”
I suspected this was the case when I heard he was arrested instead of being gunned down by police. The double standard of who is “dangerous” and are policed extremely aggressively even if they are unarmed and committed no crime, and those who get the benefit of the doubt after spraying bullets into a crowd of families from an assault rifle that Republicans insist all Americans should be able to carry freely.
What percentage of all blacks transported during the Atlantic slave trade ended up in the United States? 5%. The other 95% went to the Caribbean, Brazil, etc. — but no one is guilting the Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, British, etc. — nope, it’s all OUR fault, we’re a racist society, American whites are evil.
It’s up to people in other countries to make amends for slavery.
Wee will pay the price for slavery in our country for many years.
Here’s how The Washington Post described the DeSantis “civics” initiative in Florida:
“Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has made civics teaching a cornerstone of his education policy, and he says he’s fighting back against ‘woke indoctrination’ of students by teachers from kindergarten to colleges…’We’re unabashedly promoting civics and history that is accurate and that is not trying to push an ideological agenda,”’DeSantis said at an event this week.”
Clearly, DeSantis is a liar. What he and Republicans like him are pursuing is a narrow, rigid, highly-partisan, racist ideology that reeks of fascism. They don’t care about facts and “accuracy.” And the hate the core democratic values and principles embedded in the U.S. Constitution: popular sovereignty, equality, justice, tolerance, freedoms for all citizens, and promoting the general welfare of the country.
In Virginia, Glenn Youngkin ran an overtly racist campaign foe governor, claiming that Critical Race Theory permeated Virginia’s public schools and that parents’ “rights” were being trampled. All a lie. But Virginia’s crackers responded. Youngkin won 76 percent of non-college-graduate whites. And Youngkin got way more of the non-college white women votes (75 percent) than Terry McAuliffe, his democratic opponent. Check the exit polls:
WHITE WOMEN COLLEGE GRADS
VA 2020: 58% Biden, 41% Trump
VA 2021: 62% McAuliffe, 38% Youngkin
WHITE WOMEN NON-COLLEGE
VA 2020: 56% Trump, 44% Biden
VA 2021: 75% Youngkin, 25% McAuliffe
As governor, Youngkin appointed a racist to head the Virginia Department of Public Health. He appointed private school devotees to head the Virginia Department of Education, and tasked them with job of gutting the teaching of American history and civics. He wants to eviscerate the reproductive rights of Virginia’s women. He tried to install a Trumpian EPA administrator to lead Virginia’s department of natural resources, but state Senate Democrats blocked him, so he created a special position in state government for Andrew Wheeler. Wheeler is a climate change denier.
Weirdly, and sadly, the deputy editorial page editor of The Post, Karen Tumulty, recently wrote a piece that said Youngkin – or some Republican like him – should run for president. Her piece started like this:
“Virginia’s new Republican governor is seriously thinking of running for president in 2024. And that’s good news.”
Unbelievable! Astoundingly obtuse.
At last count, there were more than 3.3 thousand comments.
Take a peek:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/03/glenn-youngkin-president-2024-campaign/
Meanwhile, journalist Katherine Stewart wrote in the NY Times,
“Breaking American democracy isn’t an unintended side effect of Christian nationalism. It is the point of the project…At this year’s annual Road to Majority Policy Conference, three clear trends were in evidence. First, the rhetoric of violence among movement leaders appeared to have increased significantly from the already alarming levels I had observed in previous years. Second, the theology of dominionism — that is, the belief that ‘right-thinking’ Christians have a biblically derived mandate to take control of all aspects of government and society — is now explicitly embraced. And third, the movement’s key strategists were giddy about the legal arsenal that the Supreme Court had laid at their feet as they anticipated the overturning of Roe v. Wade…They intend to use that arsenal — together with additional weaponry collected in cases like Carson v. Makin, which requires state funding of religious schools if private, secular schools are also being funded; and Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, which licenses religious proselytizing by public school officials — to prosecute a war on individual rights, not merely in so-called red state legislatures but throughout the nation…The movement is preparing ‘patriots’ for the continuation of the assault on democracy in 2022 and 2024.”
Fascism and racism and rigid religious dogma are what counts as “patriotism” for these people.
And that’s downright scary.