Centering Education Policy, DeVos’ Fraud, Could Unite Voters in 2020

While pollsters continue to assess the American electorate’s appetite for impeaching and removing President Donald Trump from office for his criminal behavior, finding still a population virtually split down the middle, voters seem to have far less tolerance for the fraudulent enterprises of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Evidence suggests, in fact, that making the impact of her policies and behaviors, as well as the Trump administration’s educational policies overall, more central in any 2020 Democratic campaign could prove successful in defeating Trump’s re-election bid.

If the damaging and even murderous intrigue of Trump’s foreign dealings with Russia, the Ukraine, and Turkey, or his severe abuse of Latin American children at the southern border, don’t seem to outrage voters, it seems Americans do care about how their own children are treated in public schools and also how their own pursuit of educational opportunities are hindered or supported.

As I’ve written about earlier for PoliticusUsa, DeVos has repeatedly undermined access to education for America’s students and, in her routine yet stalwart support of for-profit education, has participated in fleecing Americans of millions of dollars and leaving them, as they earnestly sought degrees to improve their lives and pursue their dreams, without diplomas.

At the end of last August, DeVos, reversing policies put in place during the Obama administration to enable…