A lot of the reaction today is coordinated propagandizing. All this “record inflation” – it was much higher for an entire decade in the 1970s.
It drives me nuts when trumpers say “Gas was $1.70 a gallon under trump” and leave out the context that it was cheap because he bungled the pandemic response and the economy was in the crapper.
I read a post on Quora last week where a right-wing teacher was blaming the unions and “liberal teacher indoctrination” for dumbing kids down and lowering standards.
My first thought was the “lowering standards” (and cheating) I remember as an outgrowth of W’s No Child Left Behind. They started conditioning federal money to schools on aggregate standardized test scores and that got a lot of schools dropping kids and scores that lowered their average, teaching to the test, cheating on the test, etc.
“Common Core” was also an outgrowth of No Child Left Behind, and a collection of states came up with it, not the feds.
I honestly don’t know what the answer is to improve education across the board, but the gop answer is clearly “Kill the public school system” and “Send our kids to our indoctrination camps” and “Screw that kid; he isn’t mine.”
Project 2025 shows that they see trump as a mascot not a leader.