Chris Hayes Says the Silver Lining in Trump's Attacks on American Institutions Is That They Have No Choice but to Fight
(The Wrap) Chris Hayes opened Tuesday’s episode of his MSNBC show with a bleak look Donald Trump’s latest attacks on “our American birthright of a free and open society,” including against independent universities, real science and the free press.
But despite grim recent events, Hayes argued that there is a “real silver lining” — that these institutions are being forced to fight him.
Hayes began by talking about Trump’s escalating war on Harvard university, which as Hayes explained, is a campaign to “put Harvard University, nation’s oldest college, out of business.” This most recently includes Trump’s order to cancel all federal contracts with the university, an unprecedented move that was preceded by the equally unprecedented order to cease all foreign student admissions.
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“Here’s the single most important thing for everyone to understand about this ongoing, existential battle to preserve our American birthright of a free and open society,” Hayes continued. “All these institutions and the people that power them, and the vast sources of independent knowledge, production and authority contained within them, that form what is the kind of civil society of America altogether are more powerful than this one petty, addled man, and Donald Trump knows it, and that’s why he wants to end them.”
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