Your daily reminder: fascism works by breaking those institutions of civil society that could provide sites of belonging, meaning, and truth outside of the state/leader. In this demolition project, the universities/science come first -- as sources of truth/knowledge outside the word of The Leader. 🧵
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Quantian
I do not think people are actually seriously calibrated for how rabidly anti-university the MAGA right is and how core that is to their policy goals. It is probably the #2 issue after immigration for them, and for some of them it’s higher.
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"I don't like it, so nobody should do it" is an idiot's baton