Watch as the shocking realization spreads—live, on air! Is the Education Secretary really in over her head? Experts react to the fallout and talk about what this means for education policy.
Jayar Jackson is here with commentary on the new, clueless Education Secretary.
During her confirmation hearing, Trump’s pick for Education Secretary was called out for not knowing anything about important programs administered by the Education Department for children with disabilities in public schools.
That seemed to be a common thread that tied all of President Trump’s cabinet picks together: A lack of knowledge and experience about the departments they had been tasked with leading.
Should that have been disqualifying? Definitely. If these cabinet nominees had been picked by a Democratic President, not one single Republican Senator would have voted in favor of them.
Hypocrisy has lost all meaning for a party that feels no embarrassment or shame over statements/actions that are obviously hypocritical.
Warning: A.D.D. Moment incoming…
Regardless, I think we still need to point it out in the hopes that the realization will get through to even one American.
The Ultimate Hypocrisy
It used to drive me nuts after January 6th that no reporters would ask Republicans in Congress to publicly comment on this hypothetical scenario:
“If, after Donald Trump won the election in 2016, President Obama had declared the election stolen, spread lies about all of the fraud committed by voters in red states, refused to engage in the peaceful transfer of power, got fake electors to sign fake certificates certifying Hilary Clinton as winner of the election, and gathered a massive crowd of liberals together to attack the Capitol (as if liberals or progressives would ever try to kill members of Congress over an election loss) in an attempt to put Clinton in power instead of Donald Trump…”
“Would you have been cool with that?”
And if their response was that it would have been okay (to avoid being seen as a total hypocrite and partisan hack), then have every Republican Senator sign a legal contract stating that they give the next Democratic President the authority to do anything and everything Donald Trump has done.
No reporters questioned Republicans on that scenario or asked any question similar to it. I think it would have been so satisfying for Democracy-lovers all over the world to see Republicans put on the spot and called out for their eternal hypocritical partisanship.
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