Source: In These Times
by Matt McManus
“In 2016, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump proclaimed, as part of his ham-fisted effort to present himself as a man of the people, that he loved ’the poorly educated’. As his post-election work to redistribute wealth upwards made clear, Trump’s professed affections had less to do with concern for working class wellbeing than his expectation that an uneducated population would more readily accept his relentless lies and hypocrisies. Since returning to office, Trump’s hostility to education has expanded dramatically into an all-out attack on higher education. He has threatened to cut funding to numerous universities he sees as sites of intellectual opposition, most spectacularly including Columbia University, which recently agreed to a $200 million settlement and a promise to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in exchange for not losing all federal funding.” [editor’s note: Posted to remind you how delulu most “progressive” pundits still are – SAT] (08/18/25)