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MAGA Backfire! Kentucky Teachers REGRET Supporting Trump

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January 6, 2026

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Kentucky teachers who backed Donald Trump are now staring down the barrel of deep education funding cuts — to their own classrooms, jobs, and students. In this video, I break down how MAGA’s “small government” and tax cuts for the rich translate directly into layoffs, larger class sizes, and gutted public schools in states like Kentucky.

We’ll walk through how Trump and Republicans sold themselves as champions of “working people” while pushing an agenda that drains money from public education to fund billionaire tax breaks, police, prisons, and border militarization. The same educators who voted for Trump are now watching their districts slash programs, freeze hiring, and quietly push privatization schemes and vouchers.

In this video I cover:

• Why Kentucky educators who supported Trump now fear deep education cuts

• How MAGA tax policy and austerity always land on public schools and teachers

• The link between defunding public education and rising authoritarian politics

• How culture‑war distractions (“woke,” CRT, pronouns) hide the real looting of schools

• Why gutting public education is a feature, not a bug, of the Trump agenda

If you want to understand how Trumpism actually plays out in real people’s lives — especially in red states that voted for him in huge numbers — this is the story: teachers, staff, and students paying the price while donors cash in.

If you find this useful, hit like so more people see what Trump’s policies really do to public schools, and subscribe for more fact‑based, anti‑fascist coverage of Trump, MAGA, Project 2025, and the ongoing attack on public education and democracy.

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