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He can play it both ways: Cultivate the censure movement in order to persuade Democrats to vote against conviction, then sabotage censure by encouraging liberal and conservative zealots in the Senate to hold out for extreme terms.
All teachers' organizations here, most notably the American Federation of Teachers and the California Teachers Association, campaigned strenuously and successfully against the proposed ban, which was sought by assorted prurient-minded prudes and obscurantist political zealots only.
They also caught it from some abortion-rights zealots, who are suspicious of any government efforts to influence reproductive choices, and from conservatives, who think the only proper way to discourage teen pregnancy is to preach abstinence.
Unz writes that public schools are vital to social cohesion and proposes an ideological truce on the issue: If the left will acknowledge that its efforts to reform public schools have failed, the right will stop pushing "to turn our public schools over to ideological zealots or the marketing division from Nike."
This organization recruited a mixture of young fanatics and highly educated zealots who could not find suitable places in their home societies or were driven from them.