Barely had President Donald Trump announced his pick for second in command at the Department of Education when the blowback began. Penny Schwinn, an alum of Teach for America who kicked off her career in education reform interning for Dianne Feinstein, was a porn-loving authoritarian and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideologue, warned a growing chorus on the Right.
“President Trump needs the full story on Penny Schwinn’s education history” in Tennessee, conservative activist Robby Starbuck posted on X, citing Schwinn’s controversial tenure as the state’s schools chief. “Anytime someone claims their desired outcome is equity, understand they’re pushing a communist agenda,”…