Trump’s Beef With Harvard

It’s undemocratic

The media is laser-focused on the Harvard vs Trump story. Although aware of its importance, at first this obsession annoyed me, my thinking being that the elite media only loves stories about itself. Cynically, I feel that top writers/editors and owners at major publications, like the NY Times, are all graduates of Ivy League colleges….I know that’s not true, but it might be partly true.

But then I gave it more thought.

As the oldest university in the country, founded in 1636, Harvard represents democracy and free thought. People from all over the world want to attend Harvard in part because of what it represents. I know it also represents money, status and establishment; that is a draw for many. And its had its problems. But it is symbolic.

Trump wants to destroy Harvard in order to destroy all that it stands for: liberal thought, DEI, inclusivity, free speech, global awareness. One might assume that Trump would try to attach himself to Harvard because it has represented white elitism for so many centuries, and he is a white supremicist. But he knows they would never “accept” him, and perhaps he realizes that Harvard is much more than a status symbol. He is using it to keep up support from his base, a large majority of whom are not college graduates of any university. For Trump, attacking…