Well, well, well — look who accidentally stumbled into a conservative talking point and almost sounded like she meant it. Whoopi Goldberg, one of daytime television’s most reliably left-leaning voices (who still treats the mere mention of Donald Trump’s name like it’s a medieval curse), had herself a moment of clarity on national television — and boy, was it awkward.
During a recent episode of The View, Goldberg went rogue in a way that left her liberal cohosts blinking into the studio lights like deer in ideological headlights. The topic was Trump’s longstanding goal to dismantle the Department of Education, a sacred cow in the progressive world where federal control is always good and local autonomy is somehow suspect. You could almost hear the leftist panic alarms blaring in the control room. But then Whoopi said something truly shocking — she wondered aloud if that might actually be a good thing.
Cue silence. You know it’s serious when The View goes quiet. You could practically hear Joy Behar’s gears grinding.
Let’s pause for a moment and appreciate the unintentional brilliance here. Goldberg, without realizing it (or maybe she did — who knows what’s going on behind those tinted glasses), laid out the conservative argument for education reform better than most elected Republicans manage in three-minute sound bites.
She essentially said, “Hey, maybe if the bloated bureaucracy in Washington backs off, we the people — you know, taxpayers, parents, communities — might actually step up and demand better for our kids.”
Imagine that. Accountability. Local control. Parents having a say in what their children are being taught. Wild concepts for the party of federal overreach and drag queen story hours in kindergarten.
But here’s the kicker — Goldberg wasn’t being sarcastic. She was passionate. She called it a “b****” of a task, sure, but she didn’t walk it back. She said it’s in our hands. And that’s the kind of plainspoken, common-sense thinking that conservatives have been trying to shout over the noise of bureaucrats, teachers’ unions, and virtue-signaling elites for decades.
Her cohosts? They had nothing. Not a peep. Because how do you argue against parents wanting more control over their children’s education? How do you push back on the notion that people deserve a say in where their tax dollars go? You can’t — not without exposing the real game, which is about control, not quality. And Goldberg, intentionally or not, cracked the door open and let some light in on that.
Whoopi Goldberg shocked The View by supporting Trump’s controversial proposal to eliminate the Department of Education, leaving the panel speechless as ABC producers abruptly cut to a commercial break. pic.twitter.com/rM8WvBczxC
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Of course, as soon as she wrapped up her impromptu TED Talk on federalism and civic responsibility, she announced a commercial break — because nothing follows ideological heresy like a hard pivot to detergent ads. Still, the moment happened, and you better believe it didn’t go unnoticed by those of us who’ve been banging this drum since Reagan said, “The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.”
So kudos to Whoopi — whether she meant to or not, she made the conservative case for dismantling a dysfunctional federal department that’s done more to entrench failure than to elevate success. And she did it on The View, of all places. Miracles do happen — and sometimes, they wear dreadlocks and sit on a daytime panel show.
