On Thursday’s Morning Joe, as the group fretted over the Donald Trump administration’s push to eliminate the federal Department of Education, MSNBC contributor Anand Giridharadas declared that MAGA Republicans want Americans uneducated so they won’t be able to read about how bad they are for America.
Co-host Joe Scarborough recalled that conservatives have long sought to get rid of the Education Department but claimed that Republicans nowadays can’t be trusted to do it the right way:
This has been a conservative goal — like you said — and an idea for a very long time — but what we found over the years is — again, the idea always was, “Give the money, the power, the authority to the states — they would do the right things for their individual states — legislative laboratories.” That’s just not happening now, especially — again, I use Medicaid as…
