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It’s racism, but it’s also economic ideology separate from racism. DeVos, Peroutka and thousands of other libertarians do belief that all nonmilitary government programs are illicit socialism, which they also call communism because that’s a more powerful pejorative than ‘socialist.’. Even if there were no nonwhites here, Peroutka would still be calling public schools communist.and pledging to end them. And as for Republican voters supporting the publc schools their own kids attend? Don’t bet on it. Once people have joined a cult, they lose all agency.

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One other thing: DeVos, Peroutka and Governor Ducey all understand that public education is one of the last pillars of union across the U.S. Peroutka being a neoconfederate, he wants to enable a New Secession.

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