Monday, April 21, 2025

On cheering the spectacle.................

 

The Trump administration’s war on universities has been conducted with its signature Japanese-monster-movie approach, full of smashed infrastructure, rivers of screaming civilians, and battle scenes so spellbinding, questions of right and wrong go out the window. You can try to weigh the administration’s law-flouting (see below) against the universities’ appalling sense of entitlement, but I suspect many Americans will abandon sides and just cheer the spectacle of intractably self-regarding freaks joined in aerial combat over the Constitution. Harvard vs. the Trump-Monster should have been the next entry in the Shin Godzilla series, now it’s here.

-Matt Taibbi, from here


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