Today’s email from Indiana’s Senator Mike Braun [FN1] advises “Indiana’s brightest days are ahead,” as he seeks to “make Indiana a beacon of freedom and opportunity.” He invites YOU [FN2] “to represent our America First agenda” at the 2024 Indiana GOP Convention. 1/7

“America First” was used by a pro-slavery party before the Civil War. [FN3] The KKK used it in the 1920s. [FN4] Braun extols “securing our border, supporting our law enforcement, defending our constitution, and keeping woke ideologies out of our schools.” I agree! We need to: 2/7

1) Secure our borders. Too many Russian women grab a flight to the USA to have a kid in Florida or at a trump property. [FN5]
2) Support our law enforcement. Any member of Congress who helps a rioter elude justice should be removed from office. 3/7

3) Defend our Constitution. A first step is to neutralize the toxic effects of the fictions spun by The Federalist Society.
4) “Our” schools, I infer, means various religious schools or home-schoolin’ programs. They can do what they damn well please, but leave the public money alone. 4/7

Public schools should teach actual history (uncomfortable as it may be to some people), science (“creationism” is not science) and gender affirming and awareness studies. [FN6] These issues are vital to fight the neo-fascism at our door. 5/7

Footnotes: FN1. Braun is a GOP candidate for the office of Governor of Indiana. FN2. Caps are in the original, and “YOU” means me since I was the addressee of the email. FN3. Encyclopedia of Alabama, “Know-Nothing Party.” 6/7

Footnotes: FN4. Simins, “America First: the Ku Klux Klan Influence on Immigration Policy in the 1920s,” Hoosier State Chronicles, 6/20/19. FN5. “Mother Russia,” AP News, 03/22/19. FN6. Braun, a graduate of an all-male school in Crawfordsville might benefit from these. 7/7