The
conservative establishment is melting down over the federal Justice Department’s
announcement that it will begin a process to squelch protests at local school
board meetings:
That is
disturbing, but these folks, from Mark Levin on down, have no justification for
their outrage. None.
Why, you
ask?
Because these
are the same people who routinely praise precisely this very kind of unlawful
federal intervention into local affairs in the name of creating harmonious race
relations, equal opportunities for all, and other utopian-sounding projects. They resort to all kinds of
legal gymnastics and theories to justify the massive breaches of the Philadelphia
constitution that were involved in the so-called Civil War, Reconstruction, and
the 2nd Reconstruction (Civil Rights Act, Brown v Board of
Education, and so on), but now they are upset when those very same tactics
are used to silence their allies protesting at local school board meetings.
We’re not
going to defend race relations in the South in this short essay; they’ve been
good at times, and bad at others. But it
is hypocritical in the extreme for the conservative establishment to criticize AG
Garland and others for using the same tactics that the ‘Right’ glorifies in
other contexts.
What’s it gonna
be, conservatives? A consistent support
of State and local self-determination? Or
a strictly utilitarian approach that criticizes violations of the tradition of
decentralization only when it benefits the pet causes of you and your allies?
--
Holy Ælfred
the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to
the Union!
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