Rabid GOP now feeding on their own | chescotimes.com – The Times of Chester County
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times @mikemcgannpa
If they held a local competition for off the rails in politics, Chester County Republican Chair Gordon Eck would win by a landslide.
His I wont dignify it by calling it an Op/Ed recently published screed attacking a fellow Republican and local Board of Education president over the fake issue of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in our countys schools was factually challenged (okay, it was completely bogus), violated Ronald Reagans 11th Commandment Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican and frankly was just looney tunes.
Chris McCune is the president of the West Chester Area Board of Education and he has become the target of Ecks false claims about CRT in the school district. He is a Republican and has served two terms on the board and is seeking a third in November. Eck is calling for a write in campaign against the official GOP nominee which seems unlikely to do much beyond making it easier for a Democrat to win the seat.
I was able to speak with McCune this week and he came across as a shockingly normal, moderate person not unlike dozens of other board of education members Ive known over the last couple of decades in Chester County. The kids, their families, the staff and the schools are the top priority for people like McCune, while trying to keep budgets in check to respect local property owners. Its likely there are issues we disagree on, but at least you can have a conversation with the guy hes willing to listen and engage.
That last part describes almost every school board member I know in either party, by the way. For these folks today with the challenges in education, it is often about making the least bad choice when presented with no good ones. They get no pay, it is an amazing time commitment (dont forget about committee meetings, in addition to the two or more regular meetings held monthly). And in the best of times, they get a lot of grief.
It is not the best of times.
Right now? While McCune is in the spotlight, the same kind of crap is going on all over Chester County with a bunch of brainwashed lunatics screaming over something that just doesnt exist. For reference, these are some of the same people who claim COVID doesnt exist and masks dont work.
No school in Chester County is teaching CRT. None.
Are there schools working on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts to better serve a growingly diverse community? Yes. Are those notoriously left-leaning Fortune 500 companies doing the same thing for their work forces? Yes.
McCune said he has tried to explain this to Eck and some of the others on the committee that the DEI efforts are not just about race, but about better inclusion for special needs students and those of varying social-economic groups, but that the message just doesnt get through.
In a county where only a few years back, entitled white students at one high school started chanting mow my lawn to the students of a school with a higher latino population during a football game, Im pretty DEI isnt just a nice idea, it is kind of warranted.
But, you know, those are just pesky facts.
Lets be honest, truth and reality have been slipping away from Chester County Republicans for more than a decade, since the Tea Party started taking over county committee slots, running out the old moderates.
According to McCune and others Ive spoken with of late, there are four unbreakable truths one must agree to if you wish to run for office as Republican in Chester County:
This is entirely out of step with the people of Chester County, of course, and leading a once dominant party into becoming a very small minority party of screaming extremists. It also keeps a lot of good people who might do well in the public arena, but consider themselves too conservative to be Democrats, from running for office.
Ive taken much heat in the last three years for suggesting that you cannot vote for any Republican as unfair as it is to folks like McCune and others who are part of sane minority in the party.
It was my thought that without utter and total repudiation and one would think that losing every row office and control of the County Commissioners, not to mention the countys Congressional seat might have been a wake up call the Republican Party would not reset, reassess and return to its old center-right conservative roots.
But thanks to a never-ending media machine driving these lies, Im not sure there is any hope for this party to be reformed.
In the long run, it might be best for the GOP to be retired and replaced with a less crazed center right party that can start from scratch. Like it or not, we need two parties dedicated to democracy so we dont find ourselves running to extremes. The Republican Party no longer embraces anything beyond a naked grab for power and autocracy.
Its a tragic truth and maybe one you do not want to hear: Gordon Eck is todays GOP, not Dick Thornburgh or Tom Ridge.
And we are all the poorer for it.
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Rabid GOP now feeding on their own | chescotimes.com - The Times of Chester County
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