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Trump delivers on a generational conservative goal, but it could be risky for Republicans as well as students

CNN —

President Donald Trump is claiming generational wins for the Republican Party on the cultural and ideological battlefield of education – which MAGA supporters see as a hostile bastion of liberal power ripe for disruption.

In a move he described as “45 years in the making,” Trump, seated among children at desks in a mock classroom set up in the White House, signed an executive order designed to obliterate the Department of Education.

“It sounds strange, doesn’t it? Department of Education, we’re going to eliminate it,” Trump said, aware that he’s unlikely to get Congress to vote to abolish the agency – but that he can suffocate it from the inside anyway.

Republicans see the department as a hotbed of liberal activism, a source of “woke” social policies on diversity and inclusion and an ally of teachers’ unions, which are a foundation of the Democratic Party. A sense among GOP voters that the department promotes values antithetical to conservative principles was exacerbated by school closures during the pandemic and by debate about how to treat transgender students.

But Trump does not just have K-12 education in his sights as he attempts to use aggressive executive power in his second term. The administration is piling pressure on elite universities over curriculums. It’s cutting hundreds of