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  • I’ve seen this line of reasoning spouted by a bunch of MAGAts.

    Because yes, on the face of it should an institution with $53 billion in the bank be getting billions in taxpayer money.

    BUT … the Trump administration didn’t say “we’re going to end government funding to colleges and universities and we’d like to have a public debate on that.”

    They didn’t even say “we don’t think rich and powerful colleges like Harvard shouldn’t be getting billions in taxpayer money so we’re ending that giveaway.”

    No. They went the bully route and said “if Harvard doesn’t follow OUR ideology and our perverse way of looking at the world, then we’re going to try and hurt them.”

    That is tyranny. That is oppression. That is blackmail.

    And anybody who isn’t in a political cult can see that.