Yves here. Trump is engaged in an ideological and even legitimacy war with major US universities, and has scored a lot of wins. As we warned, this is Pol Pot lite, trying to decimate the creation of highly credentialed and trained individuals who have for decades been part of the US power structure. This campaign, particularly against medical and other faculties that received Federal research grants, will in short order undermine what was left of US leadership in many fields of inquiry.

One bona fide ground for right-wing upset was the way universities have grossly bloated their staffs, particularly administrators, in large measure due to debt-slavery-inducing student loans. University employees are a large and influential Democratic cadre. But do we see the Feds trying to attack adminisphere bloat? Addressing inflated tuitions and other costs to students? This is all about promoting right wing ideology, as opposed to helping students and