Xander Moricz

Those people were elected.

The majority chose those people to then pick somebody else on their behalf.

It's the same with electors and elections.

What happened last year?

We don't pick the electors, but we pick the people who picked them.

I think it should be available at an age-appropriate level.

Do I think elementary schoolers need to be reading genderqueer?

No.

Okay, I love that.

We're inching there.

What I would say is that there has never been a democracy that lasted when it started banning books.

Every single civilization that has ever started banning books turned into a fascist regime.

And to me, that's very frightening.

And to me, the justifications of it being rooted in marginalized communities and their identities, the majority of banned books discuss queer, trans, black, and brown identities.

That feels to me like a very quick trend towards fascism.

And so when that's being perpetuated by someone who's saying, I want to be king, there's going to be a third term for president, I'm like, uh-oh.

fascist recipe coming together very quickly.

George W. did a lot of work just for him to be like, no.

Book bands.

And how they're worse than drag queens reading books.