Melvoin Watch

Propagating Right-Wing Talking Points

When Nick Melvoin accepted a questioner’s premise that parents were labeled “domestic terrorists,” was it a lack of courage or blatant pandering?

“We know who you are. We know who you are. You can leave freely, but we will find you and we know who you are. We know who you are.”

- School board protester

In the Culture Wars being propagated by the Republican Party, it is often not what is actually said that sets up the battle lines but what the talking heads can convince their audience was said. The latest example is provided by angry parents convinced that US Attorney General Merrick Garland has labeled them as “domestic terrorists” for speaking out against vaccine mandates and the imagined threat of Critical Race Theory (CRT). The fact that those words never appear in the memorandum released by the Attorney General has not stopped Republican politicians from using them to fan the flames of division.

As a politician who ran with the support of the Los Angeles County Young Democrats and the Pacific Palisades Democratic Club, LAUSD Board Vice President Nick…