So I recently put up a post titled A Screen Shot Worth The Proverbial Thousand Words … which was about Sun-King Sununu playing the role of token Republican who bashes real Republicans on a CNN Sunday morning show. What Sun-King had to say is draw-dropping … the Republican Party needs to stop fighting woke … both in public schools and in businesses.
Like much of what Sununu says his argument is nonsensical. With respect to public schools, he says that being for limited government means it is okay for local government to push woke … i.e., grooming and CRT … but it is not okay for state government to oppose woke. Being for limited government means that government at all levels does not push woke. In other words, it is limited government for state government to prevent local school districts from pushing woke.
Under Sununu’s twisted logic, local school boards, not state government, should decide whether the school district offers school choice. Yet Sununu supports state government allowing school choice in school districts where local government opposes school choice. This inconsistency proves that Sununu is actually pro-woke.
With respect to business, Sununu claims that it is not “free market” if government protects workers from woke … e.g., CRT indoctrination, mandated “vaccinations” with experimental drugs, etc.. This too is nonsensical. Banning CRT indoctrination, prohibiting business from forcing its employees to shoot up with experimental drugs, etc. has no effect on the actual business of a business. The irony … as anyone who lived in New Hampshire during the COVID era full well knows … is that the supposedly free market Sun-King totally interfered in the free market … e.g., deciding which businesses were essential and which were not.
DANA BASH: If I didn’t know better, I would think that that was a thinly veiled shot at your fellow Republican governor down south Governor Ron DeSantis, Because he’s made a point of picking fights with private businesses and schools over cultural issues.
GOV. CHRIS SUNUNU: I think — well, look, I think a lot of Republican leadership is getting behind this idea that we have to fight.
And I get it, as, in a leadership position, you have to be willing to have the fight. But we cannot have leadership that is only about the fight. I’m a free market…
BASH: Who is — who does show that they are leading only about the fight? Who are you referring to?
SUNUNU: Oh, I don’t think there’s any individual.
I think, look, a lot of Republicans are frustrated. A lot of conservatives, a lot of Americans, independents are frustrated, because they see this woke culture, this woke cancel culture invading our societies and in our communities. And we need to fight, to be sure.
BASH: But you argue that that — yes, but you argue that there’s too much of that.
SUNUNU: There is.
BASH: That there’s not — there’s too much of the focus on fighting that.
SUNUNU: My argument is, the government is not the solution to cultural issues, and we have a cultural problem.
But the government isn’t going to come down with a big heavy hammer and solve that problem.
BASH: Is Ron DeSantis doing that too much?
SUNUNU: It’s not about Ron. I think — I think the Republican Party as a whole just wants to get out and fight, as opposed to saying, look, let’s remember what we’re about, limited government, local control, believing in individual responsibility.
That’s the live for your die spirit in New Hampshire, and the model works really well.
