More members of the dumb-dumb club:
College and university leaders have been privately negotiating with a deputy to top Trump aide Stephen Miller in hopes of avoiding the same aggressive targeting of Harvard University, a person familiar with the matter said, as the administration looks to escalate its attacks on the Ivy League institution and other schools.
The higher education leaders, who have had granular conversations with senior White House policy strategist May Mailman in recent weeks, are asking what signals they need to send to stay out of the administration’s crosshairs, the person said. Mailman works closely with Miller – an architect of the administration’s strategy to target colleges over concerns they are not sufficiently policing alleged antisemitism on their campuses.
In turn, a White House official said the administration is relaying to the leaders that “the money simply cannot and will not flow unabated as it has been – and that the universities are incubators of discrimination and the taxpayer cannot support that.”
It takes a certain kind of over-educated fool — just the kind of person who becomes a college administrator — to think that there’s a point in negotiating with the Trump administration. As we’ve said many times here, he sees a willingness to negotiate as a weakness, he constantly goes back on his deals, and the submission and humiliation that accompany a deal with Trump diminishes whomever he deals with. But these guys apparently think that negotiation rather than defiance is their best strategy.
Of course, the failed institutional media plays a part in this. If CNN was doing their job, they would include a paragraph stating that holding back funding to manipulate universities is illegal, that Congress appropriates and the executive disperses, etc. But they’re not doing their job, and that's part of the problem.
Musical accompaniment — not Aretha but still pretty good:
