By Matt Burgess | Commentary, Konstantin Kisin
President-elect Donald J. Trump has a clear mandate to reform higher education in his second term, for two reasons.
First, Vice-President Kamala Harris’ association with unpopular ‘woke’ ideas emanating from higher education was one of the biggest reasons Trump won the election. Some of these ideas merely offended the average American’s moral sensibilities—like the idea that America is fundamentally bad; that people should be judged, admitted to college, and hired on the basis of their race or gender; or that there is moral equivalence between Israel (the Middle East’s only democracy) and Hamas (an openly genocidal terror group that uses its own citizens as human shields). Other ideas—like ‘defund the police’, open borders, and no cash bail—inspired policy mistakes that caused major quality-of-life issues in Democrat-run cities. Voters in those cities shifted towards Trump (or moved away from the cities) faster than any other group.
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