Donald Trump He was in office for only two months, but his administration is in a high -charging career to exercise full control of both the media and academic circles. Many of this is the correct out of the 2025 project, which includes the concentration of the executive authority with the specialization on judicial and legislative branches. Last month, I expected that the last two might be a bit of sadness, as they were the last time, against the worst Trump instincts. However, this does not seem to be the case: it seems that Republicans in Congress will get his desire for anything that Trump wants, while Democrats seem to be increasingly impotent against the collective thinking of the Republican Party. Only courts and Hole Financial markets submitted some checks on Trump – and decided not to surprise both of them.
For this reason I have spent a lot of time recently thinking about how to protect the standards and institutions that still have. Democratic Senator Shieldon Whitus I appeared on my country Podcast Last month, they argue that the Democrats should fight “corruption” and “chaos” from “Trump and its crawling billionaires” by “hanging[ing] Along with the constant and continuous focus on the real danger we face.
Trump slapped networks like CBS and ABC with lawsuits, and in a recent speech, he is The name The broadcasters are “corrupt” and described their work as “illegal” – we must assume that it applies to any entity that covers it in a critical way. (ABC News settled with Trump for $ 15 million in December, and also paid an additional million for his legal fee.) I think CNN [MSNBC]”Those who literally write 97.6 % bad for me, they are political arms of the Democratic Party,” Trump said. The administration also went to war with the White House press group, as the Associated Press banned from the Oval and Air Force, one to not summon the Gulf of Mexico in the Gulf of America. In other words, the idea is to separate different outlets from each other with lawsuits or ban. Otherwise, their common power may represent a serious obstacle.
The Trump administration takes a similar path in its assault on universities. The most prominent of which is the University of Colombia on the protests supporting the Palestinians that took place on the campus last year, in an attempt to disappear of a Colombia graduate and the Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. (Khayil is still in a detention center in Louisiana.) The Trump administration is also Pulled 400 million dollars of grants and contracts funded by the federal government to Colombia – a move that corresponds to Elon MuskThe Crusader campaign that is baseless to rid NIH of “sadness”, which is likely to be endangered clinical trials. In the end, Trump will make his way to other universities, but the goal is to separate it all by presenting an example of one. To justify all this, the Trump administration said it is trying to eliminate Dei and combat anti -Semitism – and even her Published A list of 60 colleges is subject to the latter. (Meanwhile, it seems that the president has no problem in Musk A direct armed greeting))
How do you retreat? How to protect universities and free press? Well, there is one certain thing; The touches will only be encouraged by bullying, as political scientists Stephen Levitsky and Ryan Inus Argue in the Harvard Carmatians: “Not only the silence in the face of the escalation of moral tyranny, but, as the Colombia issue indicates, it does not work. Colombia leadership made repeated concessions to right -wing critics, only to be the first to be attacked.” Harvard University adds, “He is still silent. With American democracy at stake, the university crawled into a protective shell.” Instead of following the waiting and vision approach, those need in the higher ED To defend themselves as a unified front and made the attack on one of them is an attack at all.
Of course, voluntarily choice To put yourself in the Trump intersection is easier than doing it. “It is tempting, at these moments, protecting grass, silently agrees with criticism of other institutions,” as Professor Yale Jason Stanley He told me. “You may also think that the media was defective, or that universities were elitist or” wake up too. “There are some legitimate criticisms of every democratic institution. But they are all under attack together and they will stand or fall together.” We must – and I say this is Jewish – we do not allow a war on any form of intolerance, including anti -Semitism, so that people who use them disappear with bad faith. It may not Love The demonstrators, but we must protect our rules and institutions, even if we do not agree with them.
There is a reason that always hates the unions; They are rooted in the philosophy of common power. The only possible way for American institutions to survive Collectively The deal, such as unions, and reaching each other. This is not related to one university, a media outlet, or one ISM; This relates to an authoritarian war on free thinking, which strongly undermines the media and academic circles. Management in the search for power on the narration; We cannot let her take her.
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