Michele Morrow continues to embarrass

Michele Morrow, Republican candidate for superintendent of public instruction, speaks at a campaign event on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024 in Elon, North Carolina. After losing the race vowed to "fight harder than ever before to protect our children and save our schools." (Photo: Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline)

There will be a parade of extremists and lightly qualified politicos in the nominations and appointments that President-elect Donald Trump will advance over the coming days. Once again, Americans will have to endure a time in which important government functions are entrusted to individuals who don't even support the missions of the agencies they're leading.

All that said, it's hard to imagine that even Trump would take the request of someone like failed North Carolina schools superintendent candidate Michele Morrow seriously.

Morrow, of course, is a Wake County homeschooler and culture warrior who, despite never having been elected to any public office or held any paid employment in education, believed she was qualified to run our state's public schools.

And now, having failed in that dreamy quest, she's actually campaigning for Trump to appoint her Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. And it's hard to know whether to laugh or cry at such an absurd idea.

The bottom line: It's hard to think of a person less qualified to be a U.S. cabinet secretary than Morrow. Even Donald Trump will see that.

For NC Newsline, I'm Rob Schofield.