From SmackDown to Crackdown
Linda McMahon built her fortune in the world of staged fights, scripted feuds, and larger-than-life personas. It makes perfect sense, then, that she would find herself in the Trump administration—a political reality show where billionaires play dress-up as public servants while looting the institutions they pretend to govern.
From co-founding WWE to running Trump’s Small Business Administration, McMahon has always been an executive in an empire built on spectacle and ruthless efficiency. Now, she’s got a new role: Secretary of Education in Trump 2.0’s march toward full-blown corporate rule. And she’s playing her part well—tearing down public education, siphoning funds to private corporations, and installing a surveillance state in classrooms.
This isn’t just another Republican push for “school choice” or “deregulation.” No, what we’re seeing is the full transformation of education into a technofascist indoctrination system, where students are monitored, teachers are criminalized, and the only thing being “taught” is obedience to power. Let’s take a closer look at how McMahon is carrying out this hostile takeover.
A Billionaire’s Guide to ‘Fixing’ Education
McMahon has no background in education. She has never taught in a classroom, never studied pedagogy, never spent a day worrying about underfunded schools, crumbling infrastructure, or overworked teachers. But that’s exactly the point. Her role isn’t to fix public education; it’s to dismantle it and hand its carcass over to private interests.
Her playbook comes straight from the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a Trumpist think tank dedicated to rolling back government oversight, defunding public goods, and ensuring that the only “education” children receive is corporate propaganda wrapped in a flag. McMahon’s brand of education reform can be summed up in three steps:
1. Kill public schools by starving them of funding.
2. Funnel money into private charter schools and corporate-run “education” programs.
3. Replace teachers with a mix of AI-driven surveillance, ideological gatekeepers, and underpaid gig workers.
The result? A fractured, unregulated education system where the rich get boutique schooling while the working class gets a factory-style indoctrination system designed to churn out obedient, low-wage workers and patriotic cannon fodder for the next imperial war.
Executive Order 14190: Thoughtcrime in the Classroom
McMahon’s first major move as Education Secretary was backing Trump’s Executive Order 14190, a policy so authoritarian that Orwell himself might have dismissed it as too on-the-nose. This order does the following:
Bans discussion of systemic racism, gender identity, and anything deemed “anti-American.” Teachers who step out of line could face criminal charges.
Creates a national snitch network where students and parents can anonymously report educators suspected of “radical indoctrination.”
Threatens to cut federal funding to schools that refuse to comply with ideological purity tests.
The goal is clear: public education is no longer about knowledge; it’s about manufacturing consent. Any educator who dares to suggest that America has ever done anything wrong, that history is complex, that gender and race are real forces in society—well, they might as well start packing up their desks now.
Dismantling the Department of Education: A Libertarian Wet Dream
For decades, right-wing think tanks have fantasized about abolishing the Department of Education, arguing that the federal government should have no role in schooling. Trump and McMahon are trying to make that dream a reality.
Their argument? “Let the states decide.” Sounds nice in theory. In practice, it means handing the reins of education over to the most reactionary state governments and private corporations, ensuring that school curricula vary wildly depending on which billionaire or megachurch pastor happens to be in charge. This move guarantees:
No national standards—education becomes a patchwork of ideologically driven fiefdoms, with some states banning books and others replacing history classes with biblical lessons on the virtues of capital accumulation.
Zero protections for marginalized students—federal oversight of disability rights, racial discrimination, and LGBTQ+ protections disappears overnight.
A massive transfer of wealth from public schools to corporate interests, as private entities scramble to take over school districts with the promise of “efficiency” and “innovation.”
In short, McMahon’s job isn’t to “improve” education—it’s to gut it like a dying fish and serve the remains to her corporate friends on a silver platter.
The Privatization Scam: Turning Schools into Profit Centers
McMahon has long been a champion of “school choice,” which in reality means a full-scale privatization of the education system. The trick is simple:
Defund public schools until they are barely functional.
Use their failure as justification for shifting funds into charter schools and private institutions.
Create a two-tier system where the rich buy high-quality education while working-class kids are stuck in underfunded, overcrowded institutions.
What does this look like in practice? Public education budgets are slashed, but billions are magically available for corporate-run education “startups.” These firms promise “data-driven solutions” (translation: standardized testing hell) and “personalized learning” (translation: AI surveillance systems tracking every movement and thought).
At the same time, working-class families are forced into the gig economy of education—paying out of pocket for essential services that used to be public. Want a decent teacher for your kid? Better hope you can afford private tutors. Need after-school programs? Maybe there’s a subscription service for that. Education becomes another commodity—something you buy, not a right you have.
Surveillance, Obedience, and Indoctrination
Beyond privatization, the McMahon education model introduces another sinister element: surveillance and ideological control. Schools are increasingly being transformed into:
Data-collection centers where students are constantly monitored for “problematic” behavior.
Police-state training grounds where law enforcement presence is normalized, preparing students for a future of permanent surveillance.
Indoctrination hubs where students are taught what to think, not how to think.
Under this system, education doesn’t liberate minds—it chains them to an algorithmically controlled obedience program.
The Final Nail in Public Education’s Coffin
Linda McMahon’s tenure as Secretary of Education is not just another Republican push for privatization—it is the culmination of decades of right-wing efforts to destroy public schooling and replace it with a corporate-run indoctrination factory. Under the Trump-McMahon regime, education is no longer about learning. It’s about:
Producing cheap, disposable workers for the labor market.
Ensuring ideological loyalty to the ruling class.
Normalizing mass surveillance and corporate control over everyday life.
Public education as we know it is being dismantled, brick by brick. What replaces it will not be an “improved” system—it will be a fully privatized, fully surveilled, fully obedient factory for producing the next generation of compliant subjects.
If we don’t fight back now, the only lesson future generations will learn is that resistance was never an option.
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