“Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated.” Those are the opening words in the Education Chapter of Project 2025. I just discovered this quote when learning of Trump’s threat on closing the U.S. Department of Education (“Trump will order a plan to shut down the U.S. Education Department,” Gazette, March 21).

Is anyone surprised? We live in one of the education capitals of the world; where is the outrage? It was not all that long ago that accusing MAGA extremists of being fascist was considered beyond the pale. Not anymore. Seemingly the majority of today’s Republican Party is on board. I ask my neighbors in the Valley, what are you going to do about it?

Don Ogden

Florence