Commentary “All politics is local,” then-House Speaker Tip O’Neill told us back in 1982 but contemporary events remind us how true that was. Part of the reason—given the plethora of useless Republicans in the U.S. Senate made yet more obvious by the infrastructure vote—is Washington, D.C. veers to the hopeless, but it is also because all politics really should be local. It’s where We the People can most affect matters—or try. And citizens across the country are beginning to realize this. That was very much in play Tuesday night in Franklin, Tennessee. Readers may recall I wrote of a rebellion stirring in Franklin—seat of Williamson County and basically part of metro Nashville—via the “Moms for Liberty” over the issue of Critical Race Theory pervading the curriculum of their supposedly perfect schools. Tuesday night that rebellion was redoubled at the school board meeting where the question of whether those same children …
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