The same ideological forces attacking children are setting their sights on the elderly.

“You and I are like bookends. You radicalize the youth, I radicalize the old.”

Most political activists try to hide the game. Jane Fonda said it out loud.

During a virtual town hall event moderated by Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Fonda explained to a youth activist how their movement divides the work: Young activists radicalize young people, while veteran activists focus on misinforming and radicalizing older generations.

I was introduced to this relic from the COVID era by Natalya Murakhver, who heads up the nonprofit Restore Childhood.

Our conversation turned to the meteoric rise of socialist rhetoric and ideals in American culture — to the point where it’s being taught in schools as something to strive for.

The left’s strategy is hiding in plain sight, and we are watching this “bookend tactic” go to work on the most impressionable populations.

Leftist leaders like Weingarten want us to think it’s just about the children, but it’s not. This is about our grandparents, too.

While unions like the National Education Association (NEA) are using lessons inspired by infamous Marxist Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, to reach kids as young........

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