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Originally published to 蜜桃影视鈥檚 EDlection Liveblog on Election Night. See our complete coverage of 50 key education votes right here. 

Like many members of Donald Trump鈥檚 cabinet, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has not shied away from politicking for her boss. 

She a 鈥淢oms for Trump Rally鈥� in her native Michigan and to excoriate Democratic contender Joe Biden for his 鈥渟hameful鈥� embrace of choice-averse policies held by the national teachers unions.

And in an unusually incendiary recent that flew below the radar of most media, she offered plenty of 鈥渞ed meat鈥� that would have gone down well at any Trump rally.

At Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian school in Michigan, she spoke on the state of the country: 鈥�America鈥檚 cities ablaze today witness a failure to teach the things that make the American experiment work.

It鈥檚 ignorant to hate capitalism when you don鈥檛 really know how communism hasn鈥檛 worked. It鈥檚 ignorant to hate freedom, when you don鈥檛 really know how tyranny hasn鈥檛 worked.

So, the unholy mob thinks our economies need redistributing. It thinks our Constitution needs rewriting. It thinks our families need restructuring. One prominent group was explicit about its desire to ‘disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.’

That鈥檚 taken right from the old Marxist playbook.鈥�

On today鈥檚 youth: “Too many today鈥攅specially among our rising generation鈥攄on鈥檛 seem to understand the dangers of such a view. They somehow have come to believe that socialism is the cure, not the deadly disease it really is.

Tragically, it鈥檚 because no one has taught them differently. And worse, some have been indoctrinated to believe not in themselves, but in government.”

On her job: 鈥淚 assume most of you have never stepped foot inside the U.S. Department of Education. And I can report, you haven鈥檛 missed much. These past few years I鈥檝e gotten a close-up view of what that building focuses on. And let me tell you, it鈥檚 not on students.

It鈥檚 on rules and regulations. Staff and standards. Spending and strings. On protecting ‘the system.’ 40 years later, taxpayers have spent more than one trillion dollars at the Federal level alone trying to 鈥渇ix鈥� K-12 education. The ‘results’ speak for themselves.鈥�

It was no-holds-barred.

While it may seem unusual for a sitting secretary to say, 鈥淚鈥檇 like to work myself out of a job,鈥� it鈥檚 a reminder that four years ago Trump ran on a promise to 鈥渄rain the swamp.鈥� Whatever your feeling is about that idea 鈥� or whether the president has followed through on it 鈥� official Washington has taken notice. 

As my colleague Linda Jacobson reported last week, DeVos has been sued more than any education secretary 鈥� 455 times, or the equivalent of once out of every 3 days of her tenure. The reason? Mileage varies. But according to a DeVos spokesperson, the culprits are 鈥渢he radical left and education establishment” 鈥� eager, in her words, to protect “their grip on power.”

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