Trump's push for 'patriotic education' is predictably corrupt and dumb

In any other era, the announcement that the government will spend millions of dollars from taxpayers in civic education would be a new welcome, because if there is one thing that Americans need it, it is a correct instruction on civic. But we live in the Trump era, so we get something good, much worse and a lot, much more stupid.

Yes, President Donald Trump trained a Civic education coalition To re -educate us all before the anniversary of the semi -nation -Center in 2026. You will spot familiar names in this scheme, all horrible.

Can we first take a moment and speak how unhappy it was for us that an important anniversary of the foundation of our nation took place during the second Trump administration, where it could be diverted for garbage like military parades and whatever this horror show?

Oh, and also, do not call it “civic education”. Trump thinks it is for wussies and radical leftists, so we are all doing “Patriotic education“Now. It is not quite clear what it could mean, but if you remember that Trump is Currently stripping Our parks and museums of everything that illuminates the shameful inheritance of America to the enslavement of blacks, you can probably get the essential.

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So who gets your dollars from taxpayers to teach us all about civic, originally Trump?

You absolutely know that these are not groups with special in civilian clothes or in pedagogy, because who needs this Nerd thing, right? No, what we have here is the most Maga du Maga, the least loaded groups imaginable.

To start, there is the America First Policy Institute, which employee The Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, after being founded in 2021, after Trump’s defeat in 2020. You may be wondering how it is not a conflict of interest for McMahon to supervise the civic training efforts of her previous employer, who are paid by her current employer. Happy you asked! She signed an ethics derogation so that she can do what she wants, so your taxes are completely safe.

Now AFPI has no experience in education problems. They were trained as a standard bug wing policing store For conservative goals such as “repress crime” and hate China. But hey, a total lack of qualifications is not an obstacle to anything in this administration.

Also here to teach your children civic? Stephen Miller’s America first has legal, which actually works as a kind of puppet law firm That Miller uses to continue organizations to force them to do the same thing as the government using Stephen Miller is also that they do, which is functionally to get rid of all those who are not a white white man.

It was probably inevitable that Moms for Liberty was on the list. Yes, the group behind the howling monkeys threw a district without distrust of the country which just wants to let the children read “to kill a mocking bird” or something else. It is a kind of adjacent learning, perhaps. But they do not really count at all as a civic or educational group unless your definition of civic and / or education is essentially Burning Burning And Quoting Hitler.

And of course, it includes late Mago Hero Charlie Kirk Turning point USA – because of course.

In the event that it was not clear what type of “civic” includes this administration and which, exactly, this kind of thing is that the money to pay this effort is redirected Fund for schools that serve populations of majority minorities. Because giving money to these schools is racist communism, Natch, but giving millions to Linda McMahon and her friends is freedom, baby.