Trump’s Fury at Harvard Gets More Deranged—and Exposes a Big MAGA Scam Highlight

The failures of our meritocracy are serious, and here again, addressing them has long been a mainstay of the progressive agenda. And yes, the higher-ed system needs extensive reform. But let’s not hastily assume that anger over meritocracy’s failures will automatically boost support for Trump’s agenda. Polls suggest that a lot of voters in the middle don’t view things so simplistically. I suspect they recognize the university system, for all its flaws, less as a playground for elite meritocratic gaming and more as an engine of American innovation and greatness—and see Trump’s attacks on it as driven by dictatorial megalomania, not by any discernible critique of elite self-enrichment.