How Harvard Ended Up Leading the University Fight Against Trump

The battle for the soul of America’s universities is also a battle for the future of trans people in the US, and American democracy.

The Trump administration knows that the universities – with their focus on independent, critical research – are a threat to their corporate, theocratic and ultranationalist fundamentalism.

The universities have always been important players in the cultural revolutions of America, so they have to be brought to heel. They have to become propaganda tools for MAGA “patriotism”.

If the universities fall, free media will fall and if free media fall, free speech is over. That means an end to US democracy.

Trump want the universities to remove critical research on race and gender and replace it with pseudo-science that affirms the racism and transphobia of MAGA beliefs. All the complaint about anti-semitism at American campuses is a smokescreen meant to legitimize this state takeover of the universities. This is not political conservatism. This is fascism, plain and simple, and this is not a drill.

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