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Tolkkinen: I paid to attend a Constitution conference. But it was an ad for Christian nationalism.

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Ghazal was friendly and glib, building quick rapport with his audience, sprinkling in jokes and faux insults.

Over the next 24 months, he told them, he wants to get 5 million people through the curriculum. They already have 30,000 coaches, 4,000 of them active. But they need more.

“This isn’t partisan,” he said. “This isn’t a Democrat or a Republican thing. This is a — the law of the land should be known by the citizenry. And let’s just follow that.”

Yes! Yes! Amen. So, teach us about the Constitution, brother!

But the teaching was one-sided. He said the Constitution was written to restrain government, which it does, but he didn’t mention that its primary purpose was to create a strong federal government with the power to tax and to regulate commerce, among other powers. It replaced the Articles of Confederation, which didn’t even have a role for a chief executive. George Washington didn’t become president until 1789, six years after the Revolutionary War ended.

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