MAGA’s Orban-esque Plan to Control What Universities Teach
Trump and Vance are already indicating they’ll follow the Project 2025 blueprint to wage a pressure campaign on colleges.
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While Republicans have long complained about the academy, Donald Trump, JD Vance and their MAGA followers appear determined to do something about it. Indeed, they have signaled their intent to upend US higher education soon after they take control of the federal government in January.
With characteristic factual precision, President-elect Trump has declared that universities are rife with “Marxist maniacs” who must be uprooted. Vice President-elect Vance has lauded the authoritarian crackdown of Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, who successfully coerced universities into serving Fidesz, his political party, which holds much of Hungarian civic life in a stranglehold.