For decades, any time the federal government wanted to compel some uniform policy

[Atticus]

for the nation's schools,---racial integration, vaccinations, school lunch nutritional standards--- the Republican party and their racist, elitist and miserly base have stood up in unison and screamed "Local control! Our locally elected school boards know what is best for our schools!"

Now, however, when Trump and his fascist inner circle say that all schools MUST open for in-person classes without regard to local conditions, we hear not a peep from the champions of local control.

If one did not know better, one might conclude that there is some hypocrisy involved.

[Sherman A1]

1. Republicans hate big government

right up to the point where they don't.

[Phoenix61]

2. Like when you were a kid and your mom said

you could have anything you wanted for dinner as long as it was meatloaf.