CLAY: Obviously, all of the focus right now on the state of Virginia. Glenn Youngkin going up against Terry McAuliffe, and Terry McAuliffe has done everything in his power to try to make Glenn Youngkin Donald Trump because, frankly, Terry McAuliffe doesn’t, it appears, have a lot of great political instincts. What he’s trying to do is what saved Gavin Newsom and worked in California was down the stretch run of the recall election.
They just tried to make Larry Elder… Remember the unbelievable L.A. Times article which called Larry Elder “the black face of white supremacy,” which is next-level crazy? But listen, this is the closing argument of Terry McAuliffe, who, by the way, giving an idea of how tone-deaf he is, he had Randi Weingarten of the teachers association as one of his speakers, Buck. I mean, you’re trying to combat education issues? I’m not sure there’s anybody who makes parents more furious right now than teachers union heads who didn’t allow their schools to be open for years.
BUCK: It’s appalling, but this is also where Democrats get a lot of their political power from, and I think Terry McAuliffe has actually had some of the missteps that he has because it has just been a Democrat politician mantra for as long as any of us have been alive, really. You back the teachers unions, you back the education system as it is.
You don’t want charter schools, you don’t want choice, and you sure as heck don’t want parents showing up at school board meetings upset and wanting their voices heard about the shortcomings of the actual educational institution their tax dollars are paying for. So I think that he may have miscalculated but also been a little bit pushed into those miscalculations about what he said here because it’s just been dogma.
You back whatever the teachers unions want. Whatever the apparatus and the bureaucrats want is what a Democrat politician is supposed to do in the public school system while, of course, the politicians all send their kids to private schools. That’s why it’s the most fun part of this.
CLAY: And, by the way, the media doesn’t even follow up and ask… If you’re gonna be espousing the virtues of public school, isn’t it fair to ask you a politician who is trying to tell you what should and shouldn’t happen in public school whether or not their kids go to public school?
BUCK: Why aren’t Virginia public schools good enough for Terry McAuliffe’s kids? I just want to know. Why does he send his kids to a $40,000-plus-a-year school? I mean, I know people who went to that school. When I lived in D.C., they were all over government, right? But they do this, by the way, Clay and they send their kids to schools that are concentration of both wealthy and whiteness, by the way.
These are overwhelming white and rich schools and then Terry McAuliffe turns around and is acting like he’s a civil rights hero because he wants the people listening to this show who don’t have their kids in $40,000-a-year private schools in Virginia to have their kids learning about the white oppressor in school. Oh. Maybe not.
CLAY: It’s definitely amazing when I, as a K-through-12 public school student, get lectured by spoiled rich kids who spent their entire life in private school about my opinion on masks. And, by the way, Terry McAuliffe calls his opponent — what do you think? — Glenn Trumpkin. This is last night or Sunday night, I should say, in Manassas, Virginia — Northern Virginia area. Listen to this. Play cut 2.
MCAULIFFE: Because day one, all masks come out off and all vaccine requirements of teachers goes away. Do you really hadn’t parents here sending their child to first grade where their teacher is not vaccinated or not wearing masks?
TEACHERS: Yeah!
MCAULIFFE: Well, that’s what you get with Glenn Trumpkin!
CLAY: Yeah, that’s what I want.
BUCK: That is amazing.
CLAY: It sounds amazing. No masks and no vaccine mandate?
BUCK: They might have people start moving to Virginia for the Youngkin revolution.
CLAY: No kidding.