Why Trump Is Really Going After Harvard

Tuesday, June 03, 2025

What are the White House's motives? Some observers detect the hand of JD Vance and the deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller. In 2022, Vance told Vanity Fair magazine: "I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left and turn them against the left. We need like a de-Baathification programme, a de-woke-ification programme."

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What comes after liberalism? From Notre Dame to Harvard, a group of prominent conservative scholars imagine a religious post-liberal future: chroni.cl/4dFjynR

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"Jason Johnson, a political scientist at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, said:

"Their goal is to intimidate and break down institutions of higher learning in America because that is where most of the resistance to their authoritarian tendencies is going to come from.

"They figure, if we can bankrupt Harvard, if we can embarrass Harvard, if we can put Harvard in a position of weakness or at least get them to bend the knee, then all the other institutions in America will follow. That's why they're doing this."

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Lemme just put this here. Perhaps one of our Trumpish rwingers will watch it and learn that they are not Conservatives at all.

www.youtube.com

(as if)

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-01 05:09 PM | Reply

You can't hoodwink the educated. That's why.

#2 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-01 05:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Meanwhile in Texas, Florida and other Red states, college administrators will soon be wondering where all the international students went, and how come tuition income is so far short of that in previous years. The greatest minds in academia already know the answer, but dare not speak it...

#3 | Posted by catdog at 2025-06-03 08:13 AM | Reply

Truth be told, I do pay attention to what Vance has said, is saying. Not because I think he is a good influence for my country, but because he is a, perhaps, the, voice of the radical right that has aligned with the insane right part of America's churches and who is quite possibly being groomed to be Trump's successor.
Fascism aligned with the Catholic Church...a fearful thing. One wonders just what the present day Pope will have to say on the matter.
Cannot be too cynical in the time of Trump, the people of Russia thought they had a democracy, but instead woke to find they lived in a dictatorship.

#4 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-06-03 08:58 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Maybe because these universities that take our tax dollars are allowing Jewish students to be threatened? What would happen if these same Universities were allowing blacks to be threatened?

#5 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-06-03 10:00 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Maybe because these universities that take our tax dollars are allowing Jewish students to be threatened? What would happen if these same Universities were allowing blacks to be threatened?

#5 | Posted by fishpaw

Students: "Genocide is wrong."
FISHPAW: "See how they are threatening Jewish students!"

#6 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-06-03 10:51 AM | Reply

"We need like a de-Baathification programme, a de-woke-ification programme."

De-Baathificatioan is how large swaths of Iraq fell under ISIS control for several years.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-03 11:02 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"allowing Jewish students to be threatened"

That's like saying "schools are allowing students to be shot."

How would you propose the school get out from under the Second Amendment, or in this case the First Amendment?

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-03 11:03 AM | Reply

"What would happen if these same Universities were allowing blacks to be threatened?"

That happens every day, racebaiter.

Officer pulls gun on student picking up trash at his dorm room
www.youtube.com

Police Called On Smith College Student Eating Lunch
www.youtube.com

Black Texas college student has police called on her by professor, prompting investigation
www.nbcnews.com

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-03 11:20 AM | Reply

EVEN future college students are at risk in Trump's Gestapo America:

www.youtube.com

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#10 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-03 12:00 PM | Reply

Because he's a fat stupid loser.

---- DONALD TRUMP

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-03 02:38 PM | Reply

Maybe because these universities that take our tax dollars are allowing Jewish students to be threatened?

This is very confusing to me.

Trumpy's policy is to threaten everyone he does not like or who disagrees with him. And he is literally using our tax dollars to do it with.

So isn't threatening others you do not agree with or just do not like perfectly acceptable now?

Could you please trumpsplain this to me?

#12 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-03 02:43 PM | Reply

#12 "Trumpy's policy is to threaten everyone he does not like or who disagrees with him. And he is literally using our tax dollars to do it with."

Why don't you explain how that's true?

#13 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-06-03 02:54 PM | Reply

Bruce Springsteen comes to mind.

#14 | Posted by schifferbrains at 2025-06-03 02:55 PM | Reply

Maybe because these universities that take our tax dollars are allowing Jewish students to be threatened? What would happen if these same Universities were allowing blacks to be threatened?

#5 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Maybe you're a stupid pile of s%*% who falls for misinformation because ... you're a stupid pile of s^%* ...

#15 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-04 12:24 AM | Reply

Why don't you explain how that's true?

#13 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

lol stupid pile of s^*% is too polite a description for you.

#16 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-04 12:24 AM | Reply

Gee I wonder. Does it have anything to do with Barron apply to Harvard AND NOT GETTING IN?
I wonder.

#17 | Posted by gypsydiane8177 at 2025-06-04 07:42 AM | Reply