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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAny Democrat who works in the Trump administration is finished with me.
I hope Michelle Rhee doesn't disgrace herself and become his Secretary Of Education.
Let him give the job to Michelle Malkin or Ann Coulter.
BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)It will be a deal-breaker for ANY Dem who is even halfway associated with that orange thing.
EVERY morning I get up, I have a sick feeling in my gut as I open the paper to read what kind of terrible outrages have been committed in the past 24 hours, and I am NEVER "disappointed."
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Democrats need to stay as far away from him as possible.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)and authoritarian across the board there might be a massive swing toward democrats. Hence, any democrat IMO should stay clear of serving in the Trump autocracy so as to not tarnish their name for the future ...
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)She may have D next to her name, but she was responsible for a major testing scandal in Washington DC public schools. She wanted to improve things by tying teacher ratings to test scores and then firing teachers who didn't meet the standard. Test scores went and she was hailed as a hero. Then it turned it out the scores went up due to widespread cheating by teachers afraid of losing their jobs. She has spent the years since speaking to right-wing education groups about the wonderful benefits of punishing teachers and school choice.
Nay
(12,051 posts)to vet people's actual actions so they cannot claim to be a Democrat if they push straight Republican policies as she did? It irked me that she and Duncan got the Dem go-ahead to destroy education with basically RW policies.
sfwriter
(3,032 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I will go a little further: Any democrat in congress who works with him is also a disgrace and deserves our full disdain and telephone barrages.