Republicans Should Ask Winsome Sears To Respond To The State Of The Union‘How do you explain me?’
By Ben Domenech
February 18, 2022
As Republicans consider who ought to be tasked with responding to President Biden’s State of the Union address on March 1, they have the luxury of an obvious, unobjectionable choice whose message speaks to the moment, and to their priorities in 2022: Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor, Winsome Sears.
The San Francisco school board recalls are just the latest sign that American voters are fed up with the state of things in almost every arena, but particularly when it comes to school closures, mask and vaccine mandates, and the racial politicization of education.
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No one of prominence to this point has been fired, not Fauci, not Walensky, not even the political hack they have running the Department of Health and Human Services. Even as retirements mount and the internal polling indicates Democrats have dramatically undermined their hopes for November, the Ron Klain White House just keeps on chugging toward that iceberg. They can’t walk it back, you see — they’re too invested in the permanent pandemic now.
The thing about the political sunk cost fallacy is that eventually, it sinks.
And that’s exactly what is happening, most prominently in the Commonwealth of Virginia, where Glenn Youngkin, Winsome Sears, and Jason Miyares were swept into office as Terry McAuliffe danced onstage with Randi Weingarten. Republicans won on the basis of all of the above — but particularly, they won by prioritizing what the Democrats and their collaborators in teachers’ unions, school administrators, and corrupt media did and continue to do to America’s children as an issue. It was a multiethnic slate elected by a multiethnic electorate, with a particular outpouring of support from Asian and immigrant communities who reject the left’s woke agenda and want to get their kids learning again.
Sears is an exceptional voice on these issues. She also is a model for a movement, not just confined to Republican circles, that will stand up directly against false accusations of racism and bigotry in American life. Instead of cowering and begging forgiveness, we ought to reject the false premise of racism, and have the courage to stand up against it, even when it is relentlessly repeated by the likes of CNN, MSNBC, and The Washington Post.
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Source:
https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/18/republicans-should-ask-winsome-sears-to-respond-to-the-state-of-the-union/
