The corruption has been bottomless, endless and unabashedly open. From foreign governments and corporate entities enriching Trump businesses, to the outright ruination of environmental standards for the benefit of large polluters at Scott Pruitt’s EPA, Republicans in Congress have chosen to fully embrace the blatant corruption of the Trump era.
Democratic candidates and those stumping for Dem candidates need to articulate, in list form, the rampant selling out of our citizenry by Trump and his GOP sycophants in Congress.
Today brings news of more crony capitalism at the Department of Education under fringe right wing religious zealot and hater of public education, Betsy DeVos.
A senior U.S. Department of Education official hired straight out of the for-profit college sector helped dismantle regulations designed to protect students defrauded by for-profit colleges into taking out five-figure loans on promises that they would get good jobs — a move that could benefit his former employers, according to emails obtained exclusively by ABC News.
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Education policy changes involving for-profit colleges has been a touchy subject since Secretary Betsy DeVos, who entered office with investments tied to the for-profit college sector, took over the department following Trump’s election.
The revelations about Eitel's engagement in borrower defense policy come on the heels of a New York Times report that the department has been dismantling a team investigating widespread abuses by for-profit colleges. Education spokeswoman Liz Hill told the Times the group shrunk because of attrition and said no new hires with ties to the for-profit college industry had influenced the group's work.
Screw the mostly low- and moderate-income students who typically get roped into these for-profit schools that load on (unforgivable) student debt.
Creating an enumerated list of moves by the Trump administration — backed by Republicans in the House and the Senate — that cause real, irreparable harm to Americans across all socio-economic levels should be at the forefront of any Democratic communication strategy for the mid-terms and beyond.
- Allow polluters to poison your water supply? Done.
- Remove workplace protections and allow employers to put you at risk? Done.
- Sell off our national parks and public lands to highly-polluting, deep-pocket corporate interests at fire sale prices? Done.
- Live like kings on the taxpayer dime? Done, done and done. (And then some.)
The list goes on and on.
“Drain the swamp?” Nothing could be further from the truth.
But we can’t just say, “They are the swamp!” We must provide voters with a long list of real-life, concrete examples of how Trump’s GOP has been screwing all of us, day-in, day-out, every day since Trump was sworn in.
Add to the list with specific examples in the comment section. We will create a master list and send it to every Dem candidate for House and Senate and every pundit, campaign operative and spokesperson we can find.
This should be our rallying cry: “They’re screwing you at every turn. Don’t let them get away with it!”