citizens to take the law into their own hands. i mean, this is a party that is supposed to be of law and order, and if you are allowing citizens to just turn each other in, what is the point of a legal system? what is the point of a judicial system? what is the point of law enforcement if, really, you just want neighbors to be able to rat out other neighbors? and and, you know, essentially, empower a mob of karens to do do the work that state officials and public servants and school boards and other elected folks should be doing without relying on on, um, you know, voters to handle it themselves. youngkin talked about this tip line on a conservative radio show where he also spent time defending his ban on local mask mandates. this is what he said about that. love your neighbor. this is one of these moments where i know people might want to do some things that that make a strong statement.
virginia governor glenn youngkin is asking his constituents to rat out their neighbors. he is setting up a tip line for parents to report behavior in schools that they find questionable. that can be anything from mask mandates to so-called divisive subjects. so joining me now, cnn political commentator, s.e. cup. s.e., good evening to you. so happy to have you on to talk about this. let s talk youngkin s already banned. i am going to go through this list here critical-race theory which is not being taught in k through 12 schools. like a lot of republican colleagues in states have been doing the same thing. now, he wants parents to rat out individual teachers to the state government. what what is going on here, s.e.? yeah. tip lines and blacklists and naming names and banning books. sort of, all the stuff that s historically been, like, ominous and rejected by history. leaven it to to this republican party to resurrect, like, the worst ideas. and and that s what that s