.... Massive changes have small beginnings

Mar 24, 2025

Dear Patriot

It is true in almost all parts of life. Big and important changes can happen to an individual or a country but they start with something that is small.

We are seeing that now with many phases of the Trump Plan for a Golden Age of America.

Today, we cover….

How the move to shut down the Department of Education can lead to big changes.
How the Dems keep making unpopular small issues into a big mess.
How lawfare may result in radical changes in Big Law.
How a little threat effects the actions of leftists.
How an idea called “America First” is paying big dividends.
How a long time friendship may result in peace.

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1- Last week, after only months in office, President Trump did more to reform education than any president has in 50 years.

However, the entrenchment of the left into all aspects of education is extremely deep and will take a real commitment to uproot. Many, from all sides of the political spectrum, can not envision how to make this dream a reality.

This article lays out how President Trump might be able to pull it off. Read the entire piece at the link.

Jordan Adams at Tom Klingstein

How Trump Can Reform American Education

QUOTE: The destructive Left has long placed a high value on educational activism, conscious of the long-term effect it has on national direction. The Right, meanwhile, rarely thinks beyond the goal of devolving educational control back to state and local authorities. Jordan Adams examines how this mismatch has left the new administration unprepared for the educational fights ahead, and proposes how Trump might overcome that challenge and turn education into a winning issue for American patriots.
President Trump has a crack team this time around. The president has come out swinging on parental rights, protecting girls in schools and sports, and stomping out CRT, DEI, and the rest of the insane woke agenda.
With the White House’s statements on the disastrous new National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores, President Trump has even shocked and received heavily caveated approval from many in the education punditry class, an almost exclusively left-of-center crowd. On top it all, Trump publicly directed Linda McMahon, his Secretary of Education, to prepare for the controlled demolition and hollowing-out of the Department of Education, whose workforce has now been reduced by roughly half.
Yes, we’re off to a great start. But there be dragons.
Republicans have long neglected education, partly because the teacher’s union arm of the Democratic Party controlled the space, but often because conservatives simply were not interested.
Then came the lockdowns, the remote schooling, the wokeness, and the National School Board Association collusion with the Biden administration to blacklist concerned parents as terrorists.
Conservatives woke up. DeSantis made education a priority. Youngkin was handed an election victory after Terry McAuliffe’s own-goal attacking parents in the race’s eleventh hour. Democrats didn’t even pretend school served any purpose besides money laundering and social engineering. Four years later, Republicans — for maybe the first time ever — were more trusted on education than Democrats heading into the 2024 election. And Trump won a historic mandate.
This is all to say, being in the driver’s seat on education reform is new for Republicans, and of all Republicans Trump is the newest to the subject. And that’s the linchpin.
State departments of education are still the bluest, wokest, most incompetent sectors in every ruby red state in America, to say nothing of purple and blue states.
The American education system is largely controlled by a corrupt cartel that hates the American tradition of free self-government and is only good at protecting itself — not reforming, not raising student achievement, not respecting parents as first educators. Turning things over to the states and local districts without further support, without an alternative vision, will do too little too slowly.
President Trump will save American education the same way he will save America in any other area: by using his bully pulpit. Putting forward a compelling but optional vision for American education that will establish it as the Gold Standard for the world is the key to an American education revolution. President Trump needs full rein to use the grandeur of his office and, more importantly, the momentum of his second term, to reform education in three main ways.
President Trump will only usher in a Golden Age if the next generation of citizens are raised with both a love of America and the ability to preserve and defend her. That means making America the Gold Standard for education once again. And this return can only happen if Donald Trump leads the charge himself, with the virtues that have made him such an effective commander-in-chief in other theaters.