I realize that things are so upside down in American politics that it's easy to catastrophize the malfeasance that Republicans are joyously letting spread through the Trump administration.

The sheer volume of the current Republican miscalculation of the American people will ultimately be a gift to Democrats and to those of us who would rather not have a government so purposefully targeting and hurting Americans without making anything better.

You see, Republicans are too far down the MAGA rabbit hole to even see the mistake they've made. So I'll tell you.

Trump and his GOP enablers are hurting the wrong people. His latest political mistake is an attempt to exsanguinate the U.S. Department of Education, which hurls money at Republican states.

They started fine. Right out of the gate, they

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