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You are making a heck of an assumption that this isn’t this kid’s own “agenda.” I remembering arguing politics with my father when I was this kid’s age. I usually watched the news with my Dad frequently and was already interested in politics (it was an election year when I was 9). I didn’t not follow his beliefs blindly even then, though of course he was an influence on me, as were my teachers.

Kids deserve to act in the way that suits their personalities and preferences and not be limited by outside forces trying to get them to conform to their expectations for a child. I hated it when adults tried to do that to me as a kid. I remember my third grade teacher banning me from taking a book about the presidents with me to recess because she thought I should be playing, instead of reading. The only actual thing she accomplished was to make me resent her. I eventually smuggled it back out under my clothes.

At any rate, this has nothing to do with letting kids be kids. Only Trump hats were targeted for banning. I say bravo to this smart and determined kid. Frankly, I think there is too much of an egalitarian effort in this country to push the smart children down to the level of the slow ones. I applaud the ones who rise to the top anyway in this environment.