Summary
Donald Trump announced Peggy Schwinn as the next U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education.
The decision sparked backlash from his MAGA supporters on Truth Social, who reminded him of his campaign promise to dismantle the Department of Education.
Critics accused Trump of betraying his vow to reduce federal involvement in education, with several threatening to withdraw support if the department isn’t shut down.
Many expressed frustration over staffing the department instead of eliminating it as pledged.
MAGA fans never turn on Trump. They are just temporarily confused while waiting for new orders on what to think and how to rationalize the contradictions in their heads. It’s a cult.
Indeed. He could gaslight them 360 degrees over and over. Hell, if donvict suddenly started adopting full-on progressive policies, I bet more than a few of them would stick with the cult and not even notice.
As long as he couched it in hateful-sounding stuff: “we’ll start paying the forgotten man a fair fucking wage and really stick it to the globalist elites!” (they assume it’s white, cishet, xtian and actually only men, and the globalist elites just means THE JOOS) And so on. And then actually go and push for it. The only people that would notice would be his owner-donors and the Republicans he calls “RINOs” - meaning, Republicans that really know why they are Republicans…