DeSantis And Aunt Lydia Join Moms For Liberty Panel At GOP Convention To Brag About Hurting LGBTQ Students

July 17, 2024 Hate Groups, Republicans

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch:

After a rough year of scandal, electoral defeats, and effective counter-organizing, the anti-LGBTQ, book-banning Moms for Liberty put on a show of force at the Republican National Convention. A Moms for Liberty town hall Tuesday afternoon drew two governors, three members of Congress, and three state attorneys general. The event started with a promotional video including footage of Donald Trump calling Moms for Liberty “the best thing that’s ever happened to America.”

Sounding a theme heard from the convention stage, co-founder Tina Descovich portrayed American political debates in spiritual warfare terms as a battle between good and evil. Descovich cited the 380 Moms for Liberty members she said are now serving on school boards and 42 state laws backed by the group to buttress her claim that “we are winning.” Govs. Ron DeSantis and Sarah Huckabee Sanders took turns bragging about their states’ attacks on “gender ideology,” diversity, equity, and inclusion, and more.

The Nation reports:

The following session with the attorneys general of Louisiana, West Virginia, and Wyoming went from Muskian glosses on the social-media censorship regime exposed under the Supreme Court challenge to Covid disinformation measures on Twitter, Facebook, and other sites to—without skipping a beat—the self-evident mandate for school boards to censor library collections and curricular offerings in their own preferred ideological image.

This would have been a grating moment of cognitive dissonance, if any right-wing political leader actually cared about the underlying issues in both cases. Instead, the disjuncture exposed the conflicting right-wing legal strategies in the digital and school culture fronts for what they were: a cursory bid to pander to the most mobilizable constituencies on offer.

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