Liberals may view MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow as something of an intellectual, but her Monday show disproved that notion. If all you did was listen to Maddow, you would come to the conclusion that Trump is waging war on universities simply because he can and not because they have an anti-Semitism problem.
The latest development in Trump’s battle with higher education came after Harvard refused to comply with a list of administration demands, resulting in the cutting of over $2 billion. Maddow lauded Harvard for not caving, “I have just one more thing to show you, because this was Saturday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is home, of course, to the most famous and prestigious university in the whole country, Harvard University. This was a Stand Up Harvard rally that happened in terrible rain and sleet and cold in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Saturday afternoon.”
She continued to wax poetic by claiming, “The theme was effectively courage, not capitulation. People are trying to shore up Harvard to tell them that they've got the gravitas and the weight and the wealth, that if they can't lead, who can, that they should not capitulate to Trump's threats, to Trump's demands, to let him essentially take over and subjugate the universities.”
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