At the forefront of America’s teachers’ union sits its president, Randi Weingarten, a woman who radically calls her opponents fascists and says that America is under “Nazi occupation.” Is that really the kind of person who should be leading America’s teachers? Corey DeAngelis explains in The Spectator:
In the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a moment when leaders across the political spectrum should be dialing back the rhetoric and fostering unity, Randi Weingarten has charged ahead with her divisive agenda.
As president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), she has doubled down on promoting her new book, which brands conservatives as “fascists.” This inflammatory approach comes at a time when the nation is reeling from violence, yet Weingarten shows no signs of restraint.
Her recent appearances underscore this troubling pattern. On MSNBC, while hawking her book, Weingarten suggested the US is under “Nazi occupation,” claiming she now wears a paperclip as a symbol of resistance. She elaborated on a podcast, explaining that teachers in Norway wore paperclips “as a resistance against the Nazis.” In the very next breath, she urged protests against President Trump, demanding that people tell him: “Do not take our freedoms away. Do not take our democracy away.”
Such casual invocation of the Holocaust and Nazi history to score political points trivializes one of history’s greatest atrocities. It equates policy disagreements with genocidal regimes, a tactic that poisons public discourse and erodes trust.
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