After an initial round of enthusiasm, Tim Walz has faded from the headlines. Following his disastrous debate performance and his virtual invisibility since then, he is probably viewed as an embarrassment by most Democrats. But this lets him, and Kamala Harris, off the hook too easily.
The New York Post editorializes: “Tim Walz is now a walking warning about Kamala Harris’ decision-making.” The editorial recites some of Walz’s failings, but omits the most important one: the fact that he is a hard-left, anti-American radical.
This is most easily documented in his approach to education, where he has overseen the introduction of Critical Race Theory and “Ethnic Studies” into K-12 curricula in Minnesota. The Walz committee that is now effectively rewriting K-12 education to include left-wing indoctrination is dominated by appointee Brian Lozenski, whom we wrote about here. In a now-deleted video which was preserved by Stanley Kurtz, who discovered it (follow the link), Lozenski explicitly called for the overthrow of the government of the United States because our country is irredeemably evil. That is the philosophy of education that has been enshrined in Minnesota by Tim Walz.
My colleagues Catrin Wigfall and Katherine Kersten have worked tirelessly for nearly four years to expose the radicalism of Walz’s approach to education. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Kersten described some of the pedagogy that is incorporated into Minnesota’s “Ethnic Studies” curriculum:
* First-graders must “identify examples of ethnicity, equality, liberation and systems of power” and “use those examples to construct meanings for those terms.”
* Fourth-graders must “identify the processes and impacts of colonization and examine how discrimination and the oppression of various racial and ethnic groups have produced resistance movements.”
* High school students are told to “develop an analysis of racial capitalism” and “anti-Blackness” and are taught to view themselves as members of “racialized hierarchies” based on “dominant European beauty standards.”
These standards are intended to lead students to disdain America and join in the overthrow of their country. In the revolution of which Walz is an important part, students are taught that their country is “irreversibly” racist. As Lozenski says in the video, such a charge is necessarily a call to overthrow America.
The incriminating Lozenski video and the far-left agenda that motivates it are now getting wide circulation, thanks in part to Tom Klingenstein. Fox News, the Daily Caller, the Federalist, RealClearPolitics and other outlets have covered Walz’s educational radicalism, and in particular the incriminating Lozenski video. Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana has called for an investigation of “Mr. Lozenski’s history of advocating for insurrection against the United States, and…whether Mr. Lozenski’s radical, anti-America views influenced the Minnesota’s Ethnic Studies Working Group development of its Ethnic Studies framework.”
While education is the most notorious instance of Walz’s radicalism, his turning Minnesota into a “trans refuge” state is also noteworthy. The idea is to attract children from around the country to Minnesota, where they can obtain sex change surgeries that would be illegal where they live. This NPR story is revealing. Note in particular the approving description of how five-year-olds can come to Minnesota to experience chemical “treatments” and ultimately have body parts sliced off.
All of this is appalling to the vast majority of Americans, I would think more than 90 percent. Walz’s radicalism is particularly relevant, since Kamala Harris resolutely declines to articulate her own views on controversial issues, and her supporters imply that she has left behind her own radical past. Harris’s selection of Tim Walz as her running mate is a grim reminder that she is, and always has been, a hard-left politician.
A postscript: I believe that an ad featuring the Lozenski video will begin to play later today in at least one state. I will add it to this post when that happens.
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