A Culture of Cowardice

Capitol Hill Republicans, corporate America and White House allies are terrified about what’s next in President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war. But they fear Trump’s wrath even more.

The tariffs may be illegal, but nobody is going to take the Malignant Felon to court because they're afraid of him.

Same goes for academia. he's cowed all of them.

This is the question that I have, especially for academia. Some of those schools are a few centuries old. They're going to be here in a couple of generations. And when that time comes, when the questions are asked about this era: "Where were you? What did you do to stand up for the cause of freedom?"-- What are you going to say? That you ran and hid and acted as though Trump was an EF-5 tornado and there was nothing you could do? Or did you stand up to an old, malignant, grievance-fueled psychopath and fight?

Almost every school has, somewhere, a monument to those students who went off to fight for our freedom and who didn't come home alive. Maybe the administrators and board members should go and stand in front of those monuments and reflect on their actions and inactions in opposing the Demented Dictator of Mar-a-Lago.