Zeeshan Aleem: Trump’s policy rollout shows that Republicans don’t want to improve the education system; they want to weaponize it.
for education policy in one of the first major policy rollouts of his presidential campaign. True to form, it isn’t an argument about how to improve the education system. It is instead an inflammatory call for expanding reactionary culture wars in our schooling system. It’s also a signal that Trump wants to out-MAGA his potential 2024 rivalwhen it comes to turning American education into a tool of white nationalist propaganda.
It doesn't view policy as a way to improve human flourishing, but as a vehicle to reshape American society around right-wing identity anxieties. Trump’s proposals are a demand that the American education system should be transformed into an ultra right-wing indoctrination pipeline., he calls for cutting off federal funding for schools and programs including “critical race theory, gender ideology, or other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content onto our children.
Trump’s announcement bears all his signature characteristics as a politician. It’s designed to maximally pander to his base and provoke his opponents using cartoonish talking points. It’s impractical: It’s unclear how much of what he says would actually work, particularly given that most education funding. And it doesn’t view policy as a way to improve human flourishing, but as a vehicle to reshape American society around right-wing identity anxieties.
Trump’s emphasis on education early in his White House campaign underscores how important the policy area has become in Republican politics, and how it’s likely to be a top-tier issue in the GOP presidential primaries. It can also be read as an attempt to get ahead of DeSantis in the primary race. Under DeSantis’ leadership, Florida has become the right’s
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