At the annual assembly of the National Education Association in Philadelphia last weekend, President Becky Pringle addressed representatives of the three-million-member labor union with a bombastic speech that sparked social media comparisons to Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
"Keep going, NEA, to preserve our democracy! We must win all the things," Pringle continued to yell as she whacked the podium and waved her hands aloft.
Pringle's completely uncorked dramatics prompted widespread online mockery and comparisons to an episode of NBC's hit comedy The Office in which intense nerd Dwight Schrute delivered an equally histrionic speech at a sales convention, reportedly modeled in the style of Mussolini.
After last year's NEA gathering, a National Review headline about that Pringle address read, "Teachers' Union President Goes Full Dwight Schrute in Unhinged Speech." "Pringle believes she's a revolutionary," wrote the magazine, which also posted a tweet from educator Paul Rossi observing, "The closing of Becky Pringle's latest speech to the NEA was a Hitlerian performance. This is not a casual comparison."
Nicki Neily, founder and president of the Parents Defending Education nonprofit, noted on X that Pringle ranted this year for nearly a half hour without mentioning the learning loss suffered by students impacted by the pandemic lockdowns supported by the NEA totalitarians.
At the NEA's annual conference in July 2019, Pringle launched a bid to become President of the 3 million-member union.
The union wins and the revolution is furthered, and that enables Pringle and the NEA to amass more power with which to seize "All the things."
https://www.frontpagemag.com/nea-mussolini-demands-all-the-things-in-unhinged-speech/
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