The left is sounding the alarm on what a second Trump presidency would mean for America’s educational system: fascism.
“Now and in the past, schools and universities are and have been central targets of fascism. Attacks on education, including political works deemed obscene, are, to use a cliché, canaries in the fascist coal mine,” writes Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky professor of philosophy at Yale University, in a recent article for The New Republic titled “The End of Civic Compassion: On Education in a Fascist America.”
The projection here is breathtaking.
“Trump has made it abundantly clear that a far-right attack on education will be central to his new administration from its beginning, promising to ‘sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children,’” Stanley continues.
According to Stanley, the GOP’s claims about “Marxist indoctrination” in schools and its push for parental rights is nothing more than a smokescreen to foster an “illiberal public culture” with American education, akin to fascist tactics throughout the early 20th century.
Marxist Conquest
The reality is that the American education system has been the primary target of Marxist conquest since the late 1960s. While its revolutionary agenda has been thoroughly documented, it has most recently been exposed by Christopher Rufo in his insightful work, America’s Cultural Revolution.
After Marxist-Leninist militant groups such as the Black Panther Party and Weather Underground failed to violently overthrow
