A major disappointment that I had with the Trump 2020 campaign was Trump’s failure—in the face of the usual problems, aggravated by the Covid Regime—to make education a major part of of his campaign. Since Election 2020 the situation has gotten progressively (!) worse. If parents were unfamiliar before with what’s going on in the government schools, they’re all too aware now. Large swaths of parents—rich and poor, white and minority, elite and working class—are fed up with CTR, gender bending rules, identity politics in the classroom, and poor basic education. Moreover, they know who’s behind the problems: teachers, their unions and the union lawyers, school administrators, local school boards, local politicians and the state governments that enable the unions and the prog pressure groups.
Tucker Carlson just did a brief—under 4 minute—interview with Gloria Romero. As you may have heard, Romero, who was formerly the CA Senate Majority Leader—which means she was a high profile Dem politician—has endorsed Larry Elder in the Boy Gavin recall effort. When Tucker gave Romero the platform to explain this remarkable move, Romero quickly cited two reasons for speaking out:
She said she was tired of the recall campaign being portrayed as “right wing”, and
She also said she was tired of the double standard of politicians like Gavin living by one set of rules while forcing the subject population to live by a quite different set of rules.
Romero then proceeded to talk at some length about education in CA, especially about “breaking the monopoly of special interests when it comes to education.” She then made an impassioned plea for school choice options “especially for Latinos and African Americans,” offering stats
Hmmm. “Special interests”? What does Romero mean by that, in the context of education? It turns out she means precisely the California Teachers Association, citing its “support”—I think she means “money”—for the Dems, which allows the teachers to block educational reform.
To give Romero her due, she actually has a long track record of outspoken support for educational reform, and specifically for school choice options such as charter schools.
There is no single issue that concerns voting parents more than education. Their lives revolve around their children’s schools. This great awakening of parents to the cesspool that government schools have become likely offers the most energizing issue for grass roots political involvement. It’s also a natural springboard for political involvement centering around other social issues. It’s worth watching the CA recall election just to see how much traction the issue of education gets:
It’s interesting what Trump did, and did not.
I’m surprised he did not go after CRT earlier, but perhaps he did not realize how bad it was. I honestly did not.
Why was his Education Secretary Devos MIA on CRT?
Kurt Schlichter had the interesting comment that the Trump Administration was not fully staffed with people willing to do his agenda, until the last 6 months.
So if Trump would have included education in his campaign the Democrats wouldn’t have fraudulently won the election?