Do Republicans really think public schools are communist? Or is there something else going on here?

Michael Peroutka is the Republican Party's nominee — elected in the primary this week — for Maryland Attorney General. He wants to close the state's public schools because, he says, they are "communist."

Do you believe he's really afraid that the heir to Fidel Castro's presidential palace will overthrow America? They don't even have communists in Russia anymore. The Chinese use the word, but they don't do it: capitalism is thriving there, even beating us in some ways.

So does he really think public schools are communist? Or is there something else going on here?

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-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Is the GOP Calling Public Schools "Communist" Just Code for Racism?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Liberty Christian Academy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How David Koch's 1980 Fantasy Became America's Current Reality" by Adam Eichen.

Case: "Cooper v. Aaron".

Speech: "Michael Anthony Peroutka, 2004 Candidate for President of the United States".

Article: "Arizona Legislature ignores voters (again), offers sweet private-school voucher deal" by Laurie Roberts.

Article: "What critical race theory is -- and isn't" by Faith Karimi.

Article: "Betsy DeVos fought for private school vouchers for decades. She might finally get her wish." by Erin Einhorn.

Article: "How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory" by Benjamin Wallace-Wells.

Article: "School boards are asking for federal help as they face threats and violence" by Anya Kamenetz.

Article: "GOP Maryland AG hopeful is pro-secession and believes all public education is a communist plot: report" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Republicans are coming for California's public schools. And they could actually win" by Louis Freedberg.

Article: "Abort all black babies and cut crime, says Republican" by Dan Glaister.

Article: "Donald Trump loves the 'poorly educated' — and they love him" by Dan Glaister.

Article: "GOP May Nominate a Pro-Secession Christian Nationalist for Maryland Attorney General" by Cameron Joseph.

Article: "What critical race theory is -- and isn't" by Faith Karimi.

Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).

Case: "Brown v. Board", 1954 (integrated schools).

Article: "4 takeaways from the Jan. 6 hearing on Trump’s actions — and inaction" by Aaron Blake.

Article: "Jan 6 hearing: Trump said 'I don't want to say the election is over' in speech outtake one day after riot – as it happened" by Chris Stein.

Article: "'Run Hawley Run': Video of Josh Hawley fleeing Jan. 6 rioters sparks memes" by Jonathan Edwards.

Movie: "More than Honey".

Quote: "If the Bee Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth, Man Would Only Have Four Years Left To Live" - attributed to Albert Einstein.

Article: "Arizona governor signs universal school voucher program into law" by Eddie Haywood.

Article: "Transcript: Thom talks to David Ray Griffin about 9/11, 27 August 2009".

Tweet: "Josh Hawley running away to a variety of soundtracks.
Pt. 1: Chariots of Fire #January6thCommitteeHearing" by Mallory Nees.

Article: "Amazon Is Getting Into the Business of Medicare Privatization" by Matthew Cunningham-Cook.

Article: "National Nurses United condemns industry plans to maximize profit by sending patients home all alone, replacing 24/7 hands-on nursing care with technology" by California Nurses Association/National Nurses United.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Frederick Ludwig Hoffman" by Wikipedia.

Book: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter.

Article: "Andrew Sullivan" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "[A conservative is someone who] stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it." " by William F. Buckley Jr.

Quote: "I immediately deployed the National Guard and federal law enforcement to secure the building and expel the intruders" - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "First Polio Case Detected in the US in About a Decade" by Jessica Rendall.

Article: "Merrick Garland rebuffs speculation that the DOJ isn't probing potential crimes concerning the Capitol riot: 'We do not do our investigations in public'" by Cheryl Teh.

Article: "Trump has 2024 plan to fire thousands of federal workers and replace them with 'America First' loyalists: report" ("Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service") by Tom Boggioni.

Article: "Ron and Casey DeSantis: 2024's formidable couple are 'spooking' Trump" by Myra Adams. “Our country is currently facing a great threat. A new enemy has emerged from the shadows that seeks to destroy and intimidate their way to a transformed state, and country, that you and I would hardly recognize..."

Article: "Media Matters exposes Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down"" by Andrew Seifter.

Article: "Federal investigation of Hunter Biden reaches critical juncture, sources say" by Evan Perez and Kara Scannell.

Article: "A radical plan for Trump's second term" by Jonathan Swan.

Article: "DeSantis Hires New Surgeon General: A Hydroxychloroquine-Pushing Physician Who Appeared in 'Demon Sperm' Doc's Video" by David Badash.

Book: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert.

Article: "Ron DeSantis Pushes Florida Bill to Protect White People From 'Guilt' About Racist Past" by Khaleda Rahman.

Article: "Hitler Youth" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Article: "Chevron Deference" (1984) by Jonathan Kim.

Case: "Obergefell v Hodges" (2015) (same sex marriage).

Case: "Loving v Virginia".

Case: "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad", 1886.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Article: "Abortion: The story of suffering and death behind Ireland’s ban and subsequent legalization" by Gretchen E. Ely.

Article: "Michael Flynn" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jan. 6 hearing dominates top TV networks — except one" by AP.

Article: "Rupert Murdoch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cancer eating the heart of Australian democracy" by Kevin Rudd.

Article: "On this day in history, FDR's effort to pack the Supreme Court failed badly" by Kerry J. Byrne.

Article: "Common Core" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stoneman Douglas High School shooting" (Parkland) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ron DeSantis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nikki Fried" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Charlie Crist" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Andrew Johnson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joseph McCarthy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Barry Goldwater" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lee Atwater" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rush Limbaugh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Donald Trump Jr. Promised—and Failed—to House the World’s Poor" by Joe Rubin.

Article: "List of recessions in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US Presidents and Recessions – What Can We Learn?" by Urban Carmel.

Article: "Revealed: oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years" by Damian Carrington.

Article: "Bump-and-run: Notable nudges in NASCAR history" by Zack Albert.

Tweet: "Looks to me like Josh Hawley finally got his "proud cut" and is now officially a "proud boy." (google it)" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "What Is a Proud Cut Horse? Its Cause, Symptoms, and Facts" by Horse Racing Sense.

Article: "Political Memo; Democrats Use Job Chart To Try to Skewer Bush" by Edmund L. Andrews.

Article: "National debt of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Which President Created the Most Jobs?" by Kimberly Amadeo.

Article: "Methane, explained" by Alejandra Borunda.

Article: "Carbon dioxide levels are at a record high. Here's what you need to know." by Christina Nunez.

Video: Last Hours.

Bible: "You shall have no other gods before me" - Exodus 20:3.

Tweet: "We are coming, ya'll!!! Keep your eyes peeled for registration information soon. #HawlinHawley" by Missouri Democrats.

Article: "Employment Guidance for the District of Columbia National Guard" by Christopher C Miller, 4 January 2021.

Article: "Milley Apologizes for Role in Trump Photo Op: ‘I Should Not Have Been There’" by Helene Cooper.

Law: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed..

Case: "District of Columbia v. Heller", 2008 (2nd Amendment).

Quote: "The gun lobby’s interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American people by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime." - Warren Burger.

Law: "The National Labor Relations Act (The Wagner Act)", 1935.

Article: "Lochner era" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2 Section 2. "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States..."

Article: "Farm Aid" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chronic Diseases in America" by CDC.

Article: "Book of Deuteronomy" by Wikipedia.

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