Remark By Teachers Union President Shows Just How Inhuman Political Discourse Has Become

In a recent BuzzFeed News article about the difficulties that “school choice Democrats” will face in the near political future, one interviewee made a remark that disturbed me. Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), said: -- More...

In her heart, [Education Secretary Betsy DeVos] doesn’t care about children. ... She is an adversary. She demonizes us, she demagogues us, but she does it while smiling. That’s part of why I find her so dislikeable — don’t smile at somebody and then put a knife in their back. That’s what she’s doing.