https://www.ft.com/content/b7694d70-2c5a-4531-b8d0-446ee12a489a

«Watch this space carefully. The fight between Republicans and Democrats for the working class is going to be the defining political battle of the next four years and beyond.

Second, while I find myself amazed to write this, Trump himself actually has a policy idea that could help bolster the number of Americans qualified for good tech jobs. He has proposed creating a free online university called the American Academy, which would offer high-level courses and accept transfer credits from other colleges and universities, helping to push back against rising tuition costs and student debt. The left-leaning Washington Monthly magazine recently praised the idea.

This sort of online education, along with programmes that graduate high-school students with a two-year college degree, is an obvious way to train up more tech workers quickly. My one caveat — please put someone other than Musk or Loomer in charge.»

Left the word “white” out of the phrase “white working class.” Unless it was simply implied, and I missed it. Trump and MAGA couldn’t care less about non-white people in this country.

But I can actually imagine something like this program taking shape and then a Democratic administration later doing what it can* to ensure (truly) equal access at some point in the future rather than dismantling it.

\* Unless there’s also a Democratic Congress. Imagine that. Then there’s no “doing what it can,” but simply acting (ensuring, in this case).

On a side note: I can never tell when an FT article is going to be paywalled. It’s a crapshoot.