Trump’s Fight Against Harvard is Bigger Than One College, University Learning Needs to be Reformed in America
President Trump has been very skillful and picked his battles. Trump, who wrote “The Art of the Deal,” understands that leverage is the key to any political fight. The 47th president has made sure to focus on challenges where the administration has the power to get the results the American people both want and deserve. Trump’s recent battles with Harvard, Columbia, and other higher institutions — which, unsurprisingly, were framed by the usual left-wing liars as war on the education system — is actually an important and needed effort to reform the failing university system in the United States.
Harvard has been turned into a university system that is very political since Penny Pritzker and other Democrats obtained key positions of leadership at the school. The Ivy League school has become a springboard for far left-wing politics, and the university’s education system has clearly been politicized by the left. While Harvard is a private university, the school receives billions in federal funds every year, and Trump is focused on making sure the federal government is not sending significant amounts of taxpayer money to a school with a nearly $53 billion dollar endowment fund that promotes the kind of radical left-wing political beliefs that are intended to both undermine him as well as hurt the education system as a whole.
There are an estimated 42.7 million individuals with 1.77 trillion in student loan debt, and much of these obligations are not likely to ever get paid back. The university system is broken in America. The left took over colleges in the 1970s, and today these universities promote a far left-wing agenda designed to indoctrinate people, even at publicly funded schools such as Harvard that are getting significant federal funds. Many college graduates receive little to no education to prepare them to get a job or get them ready for the real world. These students often leave the university system with left-wing beliefs and massive amounts of debt, but no real-world skills.
This is why Trump’s fight against Harvard is bigger than just that Ivy League School. The president’s efforts are about curtailing the radical politics that have permeated a failing university system in the United States. While obviously private schools are free to teach and do what these institutions want, this college has tax-free status and often gets a significant amount of taxpayer money as well. The president’s determination to improve the education system — both at the K-12 level, as well as with universities — is a key part of his second term. His support of school choice should be important down the road as well.
President Trump was concerned by the pro-Hamas support seen across America’s universities, and the college system has also been failing students for a long time. While Biden sought to bail out those with student loan debt to essentially buy votes, the 47th president is actually focusing on the larger underlying problem and trying to solve it. Trump’s battle with Harvard is not just a wise political battle to pick, since this fight pits him against elites. This conflict is about an even bigger idea, reforming America’s universities and getting these schools to focus on getting young people ready for actual jobs in the real world.
