Explain your rights is a weekly series that explores what the right wing is currently obsessed with, how it affects politics, and why you need to know.
Last week, the Trump administration I kept squeezing Middle-class families will decide to resume the process of collecting student loans suspended during the pandemic. The administration said borrowers and supporters are threatening to decorate wages even if they express concern about the ripple effects of their new financial obligations, which are already heavy on Americans working on Trump’s tariffs.
The decision was just one of many that Team Trump targeted current and former university attendees along with the school itself.
I have Trump permission Law enforcement agencies that acquiesce and detain college students who express opinions he disagrees with. He has it too Cut federal funds He put pressure on schools and related institutions such as Harvard and Columbia University to eliminate diversity programs and admissions, and he I put pressure on it Schools that exclude trans athletes.
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The university will be punished as part of the administration’s plan to destroy the entire Ministry of Education. It existed In the United States since 1980.
America doesn’t like Trump’s attitude towards college or university.
Associated Press/NORC Civil Service Research Center The poll has been released On Friday, it was found that 56% of those surveyed were disapproved of Trump’s actions towards higher education. The majority of surveyed participants said the university was positive for medical and scientific research and as a source of new ideas and technological innovation. Additionally, several said the university is positive for the US workforce, defense and military research.
Trump is making it accessible to everyone, not just for one person to do it. Congressional Republicans I fought The Biden administration’s efforts to ease student debt and a conservative majority in the Supreme Court It’s scaled significantly Biden’s relief program.
Major Republicans donor And even multibillionaire Peter Tiel Set up funds Pay students to not attend or drop out of university.
Why is conservatism so deadly to universities despite the position of its people?
The Right-wing movement has long viewed universities as a source of left-wing indoctrination. The conservatives have it Concept forwarded Previously non-political students are somehow brainwashed when they go to university and return to their families as left-wing extremists.
Of course, this is absurd. If this really was the case, then few college attendees become conservatives or Republicans, but the millions of people who vote for Republicans are also university attendees or graduates.
Conservatives are so concerned about this allegedly brainwashed that they created a group of Turning Point USA, conservative critic Charlie Kirk and others College Activism Group. He also created an entire university dedicated to rounding out right-wing thinkers at facilities like Hillsdale College.
What’s really happening is that conservatism, not indoctrination, did not win the war of ideas. And, as often as on the right, when they can’t win a fair fight, they try to rig the system from within. Republicans don’t recruit people to join the aisle with a college education, so they’ll undermine student loan programs, try to bully colleges, and even turn university sports into another victim of a prejudiced “culture war.”
Even when Republicans win the election decisively, this is a battle they overwhelmingly lose. In the 2024 election, Vice President Kamala Harris lost his popularity vote and election college. Between university graduates She crushed Trump by 56% to 42%. Among voters with university degrees, she earned an additional 65% to 32%.
Trump He said it was infamous In 2016, “I love not being educated.” Because it was the demographic of voters who were most prone to help him. And despite his policies negatively affect the group, he continues to garner their support while denounced the university for all sorts of negative things. Despite the positive experiences of college opening up to most perspectives, it is a useful boogeyman for Demagogs like Trump.
Republicans I’m using it Their power to bend college on a whim, and unfortunately, these schools are pushed to give him more control and strength if given to Trump. Rights want to break the school’s will and they believe they will ultimately lead to more Republican votes.
Complex issues such as taxes, tariffs, and climate science require educated publics to make informed decisions not only for themselves but for future generations. The right thing is recognized as another goal that must attack and conquer university education. That’s why Trump is fighting hard to destroy them and to demolish some of the brightest lights of American education.
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