© REUTERS/Evelyn HocksteinShelley Slebrch and other angry parents and community members protest after a Loudoun County School Board meeting was halted by the school board because the crowd refused to quiet down, in Ashburn, Virginia, June 22, 2021.
Attorney General Merrick Garland, once touted as a moderate, has responded by
asking the FBI to treat them as domestic terrorists.As befits the Biden administration, this over-the-top authoritarianism is accompanied by the stench of corruption, as it turns out that
Garland's son-in-law is in the business of selling educational materials on CRT.Garland's self-dealing and thuggery are grounds for resignation. But that isn't the worst thing that's happened. Bad as it is, the Biden administration's poisonous combination of graft and authoritarianism can be remedied by getting rid of the administration — something that, if polls are any indication, is eminently doable.
The bigger problem is that
school boards all over America seem to be growing ever more authoritarian themselves. Instead of serving as bastions of small-scale representative democracy,
boards seem to regard themselves as above accountability to the voters and parents.
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