There’s been some last-minute renovating going on in hardcore Democratic ranks, as the breadth of their possible November wipeout sweeps into focus. Some of the very bastions of the Dem block have been attempting make-overs of their recent history to be more in tune with what they perceive as voters’ concerns, whilst not necessarily changing their positions of the past – at least – two years.

Panicking at the approaching shellacking, some members have decided it’s time for a quick facelift – knock off some of those harsh edges that poll badly. Re-write history, as it were.

Probably the most egregious and bald-faced lying one that springs to mind? The transformation of the American Federation of Teachers head kahuna Randi Weingarten from fiercest “keep the schools CLOSED/parents are terrorists” tiger to a mewling “we always wanted all the little childrens in the schools/ I *hearts families*” lamb. It’s been the most amazing thing to behold.

Here she is Sunday, “focused now on the urgent need to help kids recover…” NOW being the operative word.

The bottom line is everyone suffered in the pandemic.. because of the pandemic. The disruption was everywhere, and it was bad regardless of whether schools were remote or in person. We are focused now on the urgent need to help kids recover and thrive. https://t.co/tFQGskaT0T

— Randi Weingarten 🇺🇦🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓 (@rweingarten) October 30, 2022

Jeremy Redfern, Deputy Press Secretary for Florida governor Ron DeSantis was like, “Hey, Randi! DIS YOU?”

Weingarten should have finished the sentence “help kids recover from what WE willfully inflicted on them.” Nieds noted other awful, salient points attributable to Weingarten’s stance as well.

Weingarten has never been known for being an “open these schools now” proponent.

…What if [fmr VA Gov] McAuliffe had acknowledged the pain remote learning had caused? It’s impossible to say what may have been, but critics believe more empathy would have helped.

“Parents have felt gaslighted because the problems they see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears are being called imaginary by the same people who locked their kids out of schools,” says Cooper, the Northern Virginia political consultant and reopening advocate.

On the final day of the campaign, as his looming loss was coming into focus, McAuliffe campaigned with Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, a union that had frustrated attempts at reopening schools for much of the previous 19 months.

Heye, the Republican strategist, was mystified by that decision. “If Youngkin wins, he ought to send flowers to Randi Weingarten,” he told Yahoo News he remembers thinking as he watched them campaigning together onstage.

In fact, that oh, so concerned Weingarten would happily have kept children out of school in seeming perpetuity, so close was her working relationship with forces in the federal government, literally “advising” the CDC on school openings and continual cruel and unnecessary masking policies for school kids.

The American Federation of Teachers lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on, and even suggested language for, the federal agency’s school-reopening guidance released in February.

The powerful teachers union’s full-court press preceded the federal agency putting the brakes on a full re-opening of in-person classrooms, emails between top CDC, AFT and White House officials show.

The emails were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the conservative watchdog group Americans for Public Trust and provided to The Post.

The documents show a flurry of activity between CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, her top advisors and union officials — with Biden brass being looped in at the White House — in the days before the highly-anticipated Feb. 12 announcement on school-reopening guidelines.

“Thank you again for Friday’s rich discussion about forthcoming CDC guidance and for your openness to the suggestions made by our president, Randi Weingarten, and the AFT,” wrote AFT senior director for health issues Kelly Trautner in a Feb 1 email — which described the union as the CDC’s “thought partner.”

…and the unions’ pretty lucrative schemes keeping them shut and paying to open them.

…American Federation of Teachers chief Randi Weingarten, who pushed shutdowns as long as she possibly could before parents revolted, tried to forget this ever happened with her statement on Twitter: “Thankfully after two years of disruption from a pandemic that killed more than 1 mil Americans, schools are already working on helping kids recover and thrive. This is a year to accelerate learning by rebuilding relationships, focusing on the basics.” But she and her union were the chief disrupters.

America’s teachers unions demanded that schools be kept shut even as they remained open in Europe. At the same time unions used the pandemic to extort money from Congress. Schools received some $190 billion in federal Covid relief to safely reopen and address learning losses, but schools stayed closed and much of the money still hasn’t been spent.

Weingarten also has another volte-face in progress – did you know she’s “pro-family”? Yeah. She is. Says so right there.

As long as the “family” doesn’t include parents who expect to have a say in their child’s education is what I think she means. Hey Randi, DIS YOU, right?

National teachers-union boss Randi Weingarten recently likened encouraging parents to get involved in how their kids are being taught to fighting words — saying it’s the way “wars start.”

…“These right-wing ideologues are just trying to create fear and anxiety and anger exploiting the fear that parents already have in order to win elections and end public education as we know it,” she said.

Always the victim…

Parents and activists are fuming over remarks made by American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten at a teachers’ conference Wednesday accusing conservatives of undermining the work of educators.

“Conservatives are working consistently to undermine educators in this country,” Weingarten said at the New York State United Teachers conference. “They’re in the same race as we are between fear and hope, aspiration and despair, democracy and autocracy. And they’re doing this because our members worked so hard during COVID.”

As the WSJ said when Charlie Crist picked a teacher’s union president for his running mate this past August:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is favored to win re-election, and his Democratic opponent, Rep. Charlie Crist, seems determined to lose.

Voters know Randy Weingarten. they know what the teachers’ unions – in collusion with and empowered by the federal government and local school boards – have done to our children, and would still be doing to them if parents hadn’t risen up and started demanding and enforcing change. No lipstick on that porcine statuary will mitigate anything about the truth. Nor will a 3-month-old campaign rewrite a history that infuriates people, who want answers for the harms cruelly inflicted and demand consequences for the same. There must be an accounting in the near future, and these mid-term elections will be means to that end.

Because Randi, we know – DIS IS YOU.

Randi Weingarten thinks that parents are racist and shouldn’t be allowed to vote school board members out of office. https://t.co/mqlJTMA2WA pic.twitter.com/NGwdxDf2Xq

— max (@MaxNordau) January 29, 2022

Always has been.