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Dear Editor:

Im sure its disappointing for many Indiana families with school age children when the state legislature cant find the courage and resolve to push through even a compromised Curriculum Bill to protect children and give parents a voice.

The idea being pushed that its somehow threatening to teachers for parents to have expectations and want transparency is nonsense.

I learned early in my business career that we all have customers, internal as well as external, and we all have bosses. Both children and their parents are the school systems customers. If you feel threatened by your customer, youre probably doing something you shouldnt be doing.

Id like to say to parents this is just another bump in the road. It should now be abundantly clear that you must get involved with school board elections and recall where necessary. I also believe this is an opportunity for county and state political organizations to provide voters with their school board candidates philosophy and specific position on these controversial subjects and resultant classroom materials.

All candidates for public office should be required to identify party affiliation, once again, providing transparency!

Finally, Id like to share a letter that best captures my feeling on this important matter from Noah Bloomberg of Chicago who recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal: Its a shame theres no Geneva Convention for the culture wars. The progressive left has stationed children at the front lines of its battle for a woke revolution. During the COVID era, children have borne the brunt of the collateral damage. I hope primary education becomes a central issue in the midterm elections. Weve seen too many casualties in the past two years.

George Hodgson

Noblesville

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A woman tosses a Ouija Board into a bonfire outside a church in New Mexico in 2001, after the church's pastor urged parishioners to burn dozens of Harry Potter books and other types of literature and games they found offensive. Neil Jacobs/Getty Images hide caption

A woman tosses a Ouija Board into a bonfire outside a church in New Mexico in 2001, after the church's pastor urged parishioners to burn dozens of Harry Potter books and other types of literature and games they found offensive.

America's culture wars are creating a world of "magnificent heroes and sickening villains" as people fight a fierce battle in black and white, says writer and podcaster Jon Ronson.

Ronson said he watched his own friends fight in the trenches, often to their own detriment, and he wanted to know more.

So he set out to explore not just the culture wars themselves, but the humans behind the stories and how these fights began.

Riffing on a famous line of poetry by William Butler Yeats that reads, "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold," Ronson has released a new BBC podcast called "Things Fell Apart".

In each episode, he goes back in time to a starting point in a particular debate from school books to abortion and the "Satanic Panic" that spread in the 1980s.

He spoke to NPR's All Things Considered about what he learned about the culture wars from studying it, and how they could end.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Jon Ronson says a key takeaway from his research is that people are complicated. Jason Kempin hide caption

Jon Ronson says a key takeaway from his research is that people are complicated.

I was watching friends just, frankly, ruin their lives after getting overly engaged in a war. It wasn't so much the war itself, it was the fact that they were fighting it with such an intensity that it was ruining their reputations, ruining their marriages, and so on. So it felt very important to do something about it. But I didn't want to make a show about the culture wars that would become a part of the culture wars.

So what I did was I took the last 50 years of the culture wars, the noise, and I just honed in on these tiny, human stories. Because I thought, if you take anger out of the equation, and instead you're telling human stories, then your brain could be filled with curiosity, and with empathy, and so on.

And when I started to find these human stories, I just noticed that many of them were origin stories. Somebody makes a tiny decision that may have absolutely nothing to do with the culture wars. In one episode, there's a man called Frank Schaeffer who was a teenage boy growing up in the Alps in Switzerland, who dreamed of making Hollywood movies. He wanted a showreel to impress Hollywood producers. And that ambition led directly to abortion doctors being murdered 30 years later.

People are complicated.

Good people do stupid things and vice-versa. We're complicated with gray areas, we're a mess. And I think that's a very positive way of telling stories to remember that human beings are a complicated mess.

My base level is liking people. ... A neighbor of mine once said to me, 'You spend so much time with, you know, Nazis and white supremacists, and you're always surprised when they turned around to behave completely abhorrently towards you.' But I guess it's quite a good baseline to be curious, as opposed to, I suppose, to prejudging somebody.

This is a story about connection. It's about warring factions: the Christian right and AIDS activists in the 1980s, coming together and listening to each other. And the result was wonderful. The ripples of that interview [between televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker and Steve Pieters in 1985] are just extraordinary in terms of bringing together those two factions at a time when Tammy Faye's peer group, like Jerry Falwell, were convincing Ronald Reagan to not say the word AIDS, which he didn't for four years.

Steve Pieters is maybe the most extraordinary person I've interviewed in 35 years of being a journalist. It's a miracle that he went on this TV show, and the two of them were so brilliant that they did so much good. They connected so much. You know, after the interview ended, a woman watching phoned the studio and said that her son had AIDS and she always thought that her son was going to go to hell when he died. But now she knew that her son was going to go to heaven when he died. So that was the impact in the evangelical world that this interview had ... So, it's a miracle on top of a miracle, this story.

I think there was a specific set of circumstances in the early 1970s, where the culture wars sprung up, because finally the evangelical right felt galvanized into doing something. But why they really begin here, it's hard to know. You know, they migrate all over the place, and there are certain culture wars that burn hotter in other countries than they do here. For instance, the debate over trans rights burns very, very hot in the United Kingdom. And a little less so here. So why it starts here? You know, I wish I had a great answer for that. To be honest, I don't know. All I can tell you is that pretty much every culture war that swallowed up the world began in this great nation.

Well, the Tammy Faye-Steve Pieters story is a beautiful example of that. I mean, one could argue that in the West, given how gay marriage is legal in however many countries 28-30 countries that war has pretty much been decisively won, at least in the West. And it was things like Steve Pieters going on Tammy's show, showing the human face, showing that you can be a Christian and be gay, showing that people with AIDS didn't need to be feared. Tammy was crying and saying to Steve, 'If I could put my arm around you and hug you' because this was done over satellite, this interview 'I would. And isn't it terrible that as Christians, we're scared of putting our arms around people and telling them that we care.' So wars end when people connect and listen to each other and are curious about each other, instead of instantly judgmental.

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The history of the culture wars from abortion to school books - NPR

BUDAPEST A polarizing project by the government of Viktor Orban, Hungarys far-right prime minister, to transform the historic City Park here into a museum district has produced its first building: the House of Music, Hungary.

Designed by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, the cultural center, which opened on Jan. 23, offers exhibitions, education and concerts. An interactive permanent show guides visitors through the historical development of Western music; celebrates the contribution of Hungarian composers like Liszt, Bartok and Kodaly; and traces Hungarys folk music tradition to its Central Asian roots. One room, painted in the colors of the Hungarian flag, features video displays on the countrys political history and famous athletes, with the national anthem as a soundtrack.

Yet beyond the House of Musics glass walls, which are animated by reflections of construction elsewhere in the park, this new building is mired in controversy.

Critics have said that the governments plans to develop the 200-year-old City Park into a museum district disturbs the natural environment, deprives locals of much-needed public space and raises concerns about corruption. But those behind the project say the site has always been more than a public park, and that the undertaking is Europes largest urban development project. In a speech, Orban described the transformation as an unfinished work of art.

In 2012, Orbans government announced an ambitious plan to transform the park, in disrepair after decades of neglect, into a district of five museums. The estimated cost at the time was about $250 million, but that had ballooned to nearly five times original projections by 2017.

There had been a virtual consensus that the park needed work, but the government and park conservationists disagreed about the fate of the parks natural features.

A special legal designation allowed the project to skirt existing development rules, meaning the municipality of Budapest had little say over the governments plans. And legislation adopted by Orbans party placed the park under the purview of a newly created, state-owned company controlled by his allies. Sandor Lederer of K-Monitor, an anti-corruption watchdog, said that public records indicate the House of Music alone had cost Hungarian taxpayers as much as $100 million.

The project is a good example of how public investments work under Orban, Lederer said. There are no real needs and impact assessments done; citizens and affected parties are excluded from consultations and planning.

He added that poor planning and corruption have benefited companies widely seen as Orbans clientele, saying, Not only present, but also future generations will pay the costs of another Orban pet project.

Laszlo Baan, the government commissioner overseeing the project, declined to be interviewed, but a spokeswoman said in a statement that the government had so far spent 250 billion Hungarian Forint, about $800 million, on the project. Fujimotos office did not respond to an interview request.

In 2016, private security guards clashed with park conservationists at the future site of the House of Music. Gergely Karacsony, an opposition politician who was elected mayor of Budapest in 2019, did not attend the House of Musics Jan. 22 unveiling, which took place on the Day of Hungarian Culture, a national celebration. The building, he wrote on social media, was born not of culture, but of violence.

In a radio interview, Karacsony recently likened construction in a public park to urinating in a stoop of Holy Water: You can do it, but it ruins why we are all there.

Orban, however, has sought to frame the museum district as a legacy project, and he has used it as a cudgel in his own war against what he sees as the Wests cultural decline. Unveiling the House of Music, he attacked critics of the parks transformation as leftists who opposed beauty.

The Hungarian nation never forgets the names of those who built the country, Orban said in a speech at the ceremony, adding that detractors are not remembered, because the Hungarian nation simply casts them out of its memory.

He added that national elections in April would be a period that would end debate over the future of the park.

Since returning to power in 2010, Orban and his allies have taken over public media, as well as most of the countrys private media, to promulgate far-right conspiracy theories, attack the regimes critics and advance Orbans culture war (which has also reached academia and the arts.) Hungarys cities are currently blanketed in political ads featuring Orbans main political opponent as Mini-Me from the Austin Powers movies.

Orbans political machine interprets culture as something that must be occupied or conquered, said Krisztian Nyary, an author who grew up near City Park. They are only capable of thinking in terms of political logic, but culture is different.

He added: Do we need a House of Music? I dont know. I see its a beautiful building, and Im sure theyll have exciting events, but it doesnt belong there. Repurposing the park transforms its function, he said, jeopardizing a valuable natural environment that has served as the lungs of surrounding neighborhoods.

The park is bordered by the Sixth and Seventh districts, which Gabor Kerpel-Fronius, Budapests deputy mayor, said have the fewest green spaces in the city. The museum district, he added, could have been planned elsewhere, such as in a rundown rust zone nearby.

Imre Kormendy, an architect, served as president of the Hungarian Society for Urban Planning when the museum district project began. He quickly learned that the government had no intention of meaningful consultation with stakeholders, he said.

Nave professionals such as myself had no idea this project had already been decided, he said. Not even the Guggenheim was constructed inside of Central Park. Why should a city park be burdened with such development?

Yet Eszter Reisz, who raised her family in the area, said the parks development was fantastic in comparison with its previously unkempt condition.

For Klara Garay, a 71-year-old biology teacher who has lived near the park for decades, the repurposing of the park epitomizes the general climate in Hungary. She has been protesting against the parks redevelopment since it began.

I feel despair, she said. This country is morally at such a low point.

Although the House of Music aims for community-building and education, the strife over its genesis is a reminder of why many of Hungarys most celebrated musicians such as Bartok, or Gyorgy Ligeti left the country.

The political past of Hungary has been very problematic in certain phases of its history, said the musicologist Felix Meyer, who runs the Paul Sacher Foundation in Switzerland. Many of the countrys talented musicians, he added, chose to live in the West.

Its as simple as that, Meyer said. Hungary was a small country and could be very repressive, and not all of them felt appreciated. These are great minds, very liberal minds, people who needed space and opportunities, so its natural they made big careers outside of Hungary.

The acclaimed Hungarian pianist Andras Schiff, who has been in self-imposed exile for over a decade in protest of Orbans politics, said by phone that The way Orban supports culture is very selective. Schiff added that Orban will support everything that follows him, everybody who joins the bandwagon.

Orbans government, Schiff said, tried very hard to change history and change the facts, but it would be better to work on that, to admit faults and mistakes.

Asked if he would consider returning to Hungary if Mr. Orban is ousted in April, Mr. Schiff said, Yes, certainly.

I would love to come back, he said. This is the place I was born, its my mother tongue, and I deeply love Hungarian culture.

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A Music Museum Opens in the Heart of Hungarys Culture Wars - The New York Times

Youve probably heard and read in the media the phrase Culture War, along with references to the Supreme Court and universities. No, this is not a war of books versus whiteboards or clashes between different types of cultures although the latter option is the closest to reality.

It is about undermining access to knowledge and culture as a result of conflict between social groups and the struggle for dominance of their values, beliefs, and practices.

To no ones surprise, the term Culture War emerged to describe contemporary political and social issues in the United States. Think abortion, homosexuality, transgender rights, multiculturalism, racism, and more.

Simply put, the so-called Culture War in America is the perennial clash between conservative or traditionalist values and their progressive or liberal counterparts.

And it goes far beyond mere political parties.

Take, for example, the Supreme Courts decision last week to hear a case that could doom university policies that consider race as a factor in student admissions.

As Reuters explained, the issue over student admissions practices at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, taken up by the court on Monday, gives conservative justices a chance to cripple affirmative action policies long despised by the U.S. right with a ruling expected next year.

Adding to that case are the abortion rights debate and the Second Amendment debate.

The fact that the highest court in the country, with a conservative majority, makes judicial decisions in favor of a grill of conservative arguments can give you an idea of what it means to be immersed in a Culture War.

The term Culture War began to be used in the United States in the 1920s when urban and rural American values were at odds with the interwar wave of immigration.

However, the term would gain traction during the early 1990s, when James Davison Hunter, a sociologist at the University of Virginia, reintroduced the expression in his 1991 publication, Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America. Hunter described what he saw as a dramatic realignment and polarization that had transformed American politics and culture.

It was there that the range of issues expanded to gay rights and abortion rights, in what Hunter characterized as a polarity between progressivism and orthodoxy.

In the United States, talking about conservatism without talking about the church is almost impossible. For historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez, the emergence of the culture wars was a direct product of the end of the Cold War and the rise of evangelical Christians in the United States, who championed the campaign against communism.

When this threat ended with the end of the Cold War, evangelical leaders shifted the source of the perceived threat from foreign communism to domestic changes in gender roles and sexuality.

The pendulum nature of politics in the country, from Democratic to Republican rule, only added fuel to the fire.

In one way or another, the moral polarity in the country corresponded and continues to correspond to electoral political platforms.

While we could spend hours recapping the comings and goings of the Culture War debate in America including the chapter on the unmentionable 45th president the worst episode seems to be taking place directly in the schools.

Conservatives and GOP acolytes have decided to win the Culture War by attacking the source of it all: education.

By taking over school boards, conservatives could win the battle over evolutionary instruction, sex education, abortion, and other controversial issues.

A case in point has been the debate over critical race theory.

As Politico explained, this shift in focus from the Culture War has alternated between religion and history (and lately epidemiology) to the nations identity.

What should be a teachable moment for our children has become another dividing line between their parents. Even the question of masks in schools is now a take-no-prisoners struggle, pitting different versions of America against each other, the magazine explains.

And no people are more manipulable than ignorant people. If the literature on race, identity, and gender is removed from schools, we can end the Culture War and crown the conservative dinosaurs as victors.

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What Does It Mean That America Is Engaged in a Culture War, and Why Should You Care? - BELatina

by Glen Besa

To the casual observer of the 2021 campaign for Virginia governor e.g., those whose primary source of information on politics was TV news and/or ads Glenn Youngkin probably appeared to be a moderate suburban dad who wanted to cut taxes and give parents a greater voice in their schools. A voter would have had to look a little deeper, by doing some research on Youngkin, to hear the darker, right-wing, Trumpian messages related to election integrity and critical race theory delivered with a smile and a sweater vest rather than Trumps snarling nastiness.

Assiduously avoiding the questions of pesky reporters, while keeping his more noxious views confined to right-wing media outlets, Youngkin was pretty much a blank slate to most voters although he shouldnt have been, if they had paid careful attention (or read this blog regularly!) throughout the campaign. Starting before Inauguration Day, however, Youngkins true character as a Trump/DeSantis-style culture warrior became undeniable, as he went with several hard-right and/or anti-environmental picks for his Cabinet, along with a host of executive orders that were clearly geared towards the Fox News-viewing, hard-core Republican base. Consider Youngkins initial Executive Orders, issued on Day One of his administration, as well as EO-10 issued four days later:

Executive Order 1. ENDING THE USE OF INHERENTLY DIVISIVE CONCEPTS, INCLUDING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, AND RESTORING EXCELLENCE IN K-12 PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE COMMONWEALTH In fact, as has been pointed out repeatedly, Virginia doesnt teach critical race theory in our public schools. So whats this order all about? Apparently, burying Americas original sin of slavery, along with centuries of racism Jim Crow, Massive Resistance right here in Virginia, etc. appears to be Youngkins #1 priority. Thats right less than two years after Americans witnessed systemic racism in its most brutal form, with the murder of George Floyd, Gov. Youngkin and Republican message gurus want to convince us that racism no longer exists. To accomplish that, they are arguing that teaching actual history about the institution of slavery enshrined in the US Constitution, Jim Crow enshrined in state laws across the country, and the persistent racial discrimination in our society is too divisive and upsetting for young (white?) students to bear. Apparently, Excellence in Education necessitates state-sponsored historical amnesia, with an Orwellian hotline to the Governors desk as the enforcement tool. If book banning, revisionist history and a snitch line are not enough, then quasi-privatization of public education should keep those people out of their childrens classrooms. The last time Virginia went down that path in the 1950s, at least the segregationists were honest as to their intentions.

Executive Order 2. REAFFIRMING THE RIGHTS OF PARENTS IN THE UPBRINGING, EDUCATION, AND CARE OF THEIR CHILDREN Its hard to tell from the title, but this order is all about masks. It has set off intense debate, argument and dissension in schools and at school board meetings across the state. Too many conservatives, including Christian nationalists, appear to have abandoned the Golden Rule in favor of elevating selfishness as their most cherished value. We know that masks are just as important or more so in preventing infected people from spreading Covid as in protecting us from contracting it. But apparently, in Youngkins view, the right of a child to be free of the shared burden of masking trumps others concerns for the safety of their children. And so it goes for vaccines as well.

Executive Order 6. REINVIGORATING JOB GROWTH BY REMOVING BURDENSOME REGULATIONS FROM VIRGINIAS BUSINESS COMMUNITY When you are already the #1 state for business in the United States, what exactly are these supposedly burdensome regulations Youngkins referring to? Of course, while this EO is primarily focused on COVID-19 regulations, Youngkin and Republican legislators wrongly consider environmental regulations aka, protections to be overly burdensome as well. In other words, laws and regulations ensuring us clean air and water and a safer climate are too much to ask of those corporate interests backing Glenn Youngkin. Thats how we end up with Republican bills gutting the permitting authority of the citizen air and water boards and pulling Virginia from a regional cap and trade program to reduce carbon pollution harming our planet. Apparently, thats what Trump Republicans like Youngkin (falsely) believe will keep Virginia at the top of the leaderboard, at least in the eyes of their members-only-country-club buddies.

Executive Order 7. ESTABLISHING THE COMMISSION ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION AND SURVIVOR SUPPORT Yes, this is a serious problem that requires government action, as is evidenced by the ongoing investigation of Congressman Matt Gaetz (R, FL) and the likes of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. But with all the culture war tropes spouting from Youngkins talking head, doesnt this sound like a dog whistle to the QAnon conspiracists (wildly false) contention that prominent Democrats (e.g., Hillary Clinton) and Jews (e.g., George Soros) are trafficking children to serve their desires as a cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic pedophiles? Anyway stay tuned for who Youngkin appoints to his commission, and if any of them have ties to QAnon.

Executive Order 8. ESTABLISHING THE COMMISSION TO COMBAT ANTISEMITISM Yes, the rise of white supremacists in this country is more than worrisome consider their prominent role in Trumps January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol and what happened in Charlottesville at the Unite the Right, Jews will not Replace Us Rally. You can call me cynical, but I believe Executive Order 8 is more intended as a sop for the End Times Christian nationalists who support Youngkin and Trump than as an honest concern for the well-being of Jews. Remember, you cant get to the End Times if peace comes to the Middle East, and if Armageddon never occurs. Also, when you think about it for a minute, this commission is coming from someone who was endorsed by the guy (Trump) who has helped fuel the rise of racist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, etc. hatred and even violence in recent years. Then theres the role of right-wing media, which Youngkin frequently appears on. Is Youngkins commission going to study Trump and right wing media and report on how theyve contributed to the rise of anti-Semitism? Something tells me the answer to that is no. Also, in the context of the sophisticated divisiveness emanating from this suburban dad in a red vest, I am reminded of that famous quote by Martin Niemller regarding the Nazis: First they came for the socialists, and I didnt do anything because I wasnt a socialist In his case, Youngkin went after Blacks first as has, sadly, been the American way for centuries. But the movement that Youngkin is playing footsies with is already chock full of antisemites. And gays are on that list right after Blacks. During the campaign, who knew that Youngkin opposes gay marriage? I am not calling Youngkin a Nazi or an anti-Semite, of course; but since he is more than willing to use racism to advance his political career, just how far is he willing to go with this divide-and-conquer strategy? Here again, we will judge Youngkins sincerity by the quality of his appointments to this commission, and by whatever conclusions they come to.

Executive Order 9. PROTECTING RATEPAYERS FROM THE RISING COST OF LIVING DUE TO THE REGIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS INITIATIVE It would be different if Youngkin and Republicans, in general, agreed that climate change posed an existential threat to society (which it obviously does!). Then we could have an honest debate as to what policies are best to address it. Tragically, that is not the case here. Instead, Youngkin made it clear in the second gubernatorial debate that he wouldnt even say the words climate change or global warming, while he aiming to bring back coal and expand reliance on fracked gas. Even worse, Youngkin has announced his intentions to dismantle the modest steps Virginia has taken to address climate change, by withdrawing from RGGI and gutting the Virginia Clean Economy Act. All of this makes it crystal clear that Youngkin, like Trump, has no intention of addressing this crisis at all, other than to make it *worse*. And like the Republicans in Hampton Roads who are all-in on spending billions of tax dollars for adaptation to recurrent flooding, Youngkin has no plan to address the root cause (global heating) of the flooding.

Executive Order 10. FOCUSING VIRGINIAS DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION OFFICE AND DESIGNATING A COMMONWEALTH CHIEF DIVERSITY, OPPORTUNITY, & INCLUSION OFFICER It is appropriate that I begin and end this guide on the topic of race. Youngkins victory was attributable, in part, to his artful use of the Republicans newest racist dog whistle, Critical Race Theory CRT, for short. Amoral (or immoral) Republican strategists across the country are salivating at how they can model Youngkins campaign use of CRT to scare suburban white women into voting Republican in the upcoming midterm elections. Dropping Equity from the title of Virginias Chief Diversity officer and substituting Opportunity is one more way of undermining progress on the gross financial inequities that break along racial lines. Equity or fairness is anathema to Republicans and the Christian nationalists who adhere to the prosperity gospel. In their view, if youre born poor, thats your tough luck. If you have a hard time advancing in a neighborhood plagued by drugs and guns and underfunded schools, then once again, the fault lies with you. And in these peoples view, whether a kid is raised in an inner city public housing project or toney Great Falls, he or she has the same opportunity to succeed, which is a convenient perspective for a guy who sent his kids to private school. Equity would mean that the very privileged, like Youngkin, would have to pay more taxes to actually equalize the opportunity for kids. Of course, Youngkin will have none of that. Additionally, if you care about womens reproductive rights consider that the new Chief Diversity, Opportunity & Inclusion Officer will be an ambassador for unborn children. Past experience tells me that the Youngkin administration will care a whole lot more about the unborn children than the children living in poverty today.

Where we go from here

As Virginians, we now find ourselves thrust into the culture wars common in Red State politics. Eight years of Democrats in the Governors mansion had somewhat insulated many but not all of us from dealing with it up close and personal, even as Trump misgoverned our nation. Now, we are seeing first hand the damage that can be done to civility and civil society by the likes of a Greg Abbott, a Ron DeSantis or a Glenn Youngkin. All three of those governors, and many others, are using Trumps right-wing populist playbook, with ambitions to be the president of the United States. Its up to us to stop them to stop Glenn Youngkin and RESIST!

Note: The opinions expressed in this blog post are solely those of the author, and are not intended to reflect the opinion or the positions of any organizations with which he may be associated.

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A Virginian's Guide to Glenn Youngkin's Exploitation of the Culture Wars in the Commonwealth - Blue Virginia