It’s seldom that one person so neatly encapsulates an entire way of thinking and the demographic that embodies it…
Such a person is 47-year-old Sharon McMahon, a former American Government teacher from Minnesota. (If you’re wondering who elected Tim Walz look no more!)
Ms. McMahon is a tall, willowy blond who has the Minnesota accent that could get her on Garrison Keillor‘s old radio show, as well as the politics that go with it. She first rose to prominence on social media when she launched a systematic campaign to disabuse the rest of us of misconceptions about COVID and the 2020 elections. As she coyly put it, it is not easy dealing with people who are so dumb they think that the Electoral College is a place, an actual degree granting institution, with itís own campus. (Yeah, and infant Kamala Harris’s first word was Fwee-dom.)
As McMahon’s web site points out, it’s only natural that as a former high school teacher she would dedicate herself to fighting ‘misinformation’. As she said, once you understand the non-partisan facts, you will feel less ‘afraid.’ You know, obvious factual propositions, empirically verifiable, like ‘Trump is literally Hitler,’ or ‘Kamala Harris is one of the most accomplished people in American politics today’ or ‘Inflation is transitory’ or ‘The border is secure, or would have been except for Trump’ or ‘Crime is way down in the U.S.’
You know, propositions that every thinking person who drives a Prius with a COEXIST bumper sticker instinctively understands to be true.
Ms. McMahon has now parlayed her fame as an internet warrior against misinformation into becoming a bestselling author. Her first book is ‘The Small and the Mighty’ – actually a very enjoyable anthology of biographical sketches of half a dozen Americans in history. These include educators, philanthropists, and local civic leaders. None are household names, and each overcame incredible misfortune to achieve their dreams. Continue reading