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Thursday, September 4, 2025
Stopping Trump's Attacks
TRUMP HAS BEEN ON THE ATTACK the entire time he has been president, if not his entire miserable life. Attacking public education, and higher education. Attacking the news media. Atacking the judicial and legal system. Attcking immmigrants. The list could go on, at length. You name it, Trump attacks it. I recall how shocked and distraught I was when he singled out Harvard for personal attack, using the trumped up excuse that there existed anti-Semitism on campus, and withholding about two billion dollars worth of federal research funds as punishment,penalty, retaliation, which ever. Actually Trump atttacked Harvard because Harvard, like all great universities, is a bastian of liberalism, doesn't like Trump, and because the story goes, Harvard turned him down for admission years ago, if you can believe such a thing. At the time, his attack of Harvard was Trump's most egregeious example of authoritarian fascism, a record which has been broken many times since, as records are, so it is said, meant to be. I was shocked, disappointed, and angry at how easily and completely, it seemed to me, Harvard responded not by fighting Trump, but by rolling over like a whipped dog and acceding to Trump's tyranny. Or maybe that's just my impression. But no more. A federal judge ruled yesterday that Trump's Harvard blackmail is illegal, and, Harvard, seemingly, is off the hook, soon to be reunited with its two billion dollars of taxpayer money. Who knows, maybe they'll cure cancer with it. We can be assured they will try. In other federal judicial rulings, Trump's militarization of American cities has been ruled illegal, his tariffs have been ruled illegal, all just in the past week. It is becoming increasingly amazing the amount of Trump's agenda which is being or has been eliminated by the federal courts. Trump's agenda, basically, has been destroyed by America's courts, including by many with conservative judges. Our venerated system of checks and balances, with co equal branches of government holding each other accountable, seems to be holding up, seems to be working to thwart Trump's fascism and to preserve democracy. This by itself is cause for celebration and hope for the future. There is an even more powerful force in American political life than the court system which can defend and preserve democracy and rid the country of fascism. That force, of course, is public opinion, and the free expression thereof. The power of we the people, stating what we want and believe. In our modern era of social media and smart phones, pubic opinion of we the people is potentially, potentially more powerful than ever, more powerful than any human force in human history. MAGA is an American minority. A majority of Americans oppose Trump, and oppose fascism. We the democratic majority must use majority rule, mob rule if you will, to overcome, destroy, and bury this whole extrrme right wing Christian fascism disease currently infecting the United States. Conservative Christian America overwhelmingly still supports Trump, making them both traitors and heretics. The arguments and reasoning supporting this assertion are convincing, persuasive, factual, not insulting, or slanderous. The American conservative community and the American Christian community have united, in service of fascism, and must be defeated. The best evidence of this is the mere fact that they have chosen as their hero and leader, and as America's president, a lifelong criminal who's every word since becoming president is a lie, and every action a crime.
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Bobby, I can tell you what has happened at Harvard because I'm living it.
ReplyDeleteAt no point has Harvard rolled over in the slightest. Garber has held the line from day one, and we've suffered many layoffs in the interim, as have all universities in the area.
This is a temporary respite, as the Federal Government is coming after Harvard on all fronts. Read those words again. What a travesty.
To date Harvard has stood firm, and given what I know of Alan Garber, and what I see in the language he uses when he updates us, Harvard will continue to fight to the last lawyer in the house.