Harvard, Bud Light, and the Times: The Reason for Donald Trump

So she’s out.

That would be Claudine Gay, the now-resigned president of Harvard University. (READ MORE: The Fake Martyrdom of Claudine Gay)

Then there’s the misfortunes of Anheuser-Busch’s famous Bud Light beer. As the inimitable Jonathan Turley headlines at his website:

 Going Flat? Bud Light Sales Still Down 28 Percent as Consumers Continue Boycott

Turley writes:

Beer analysts are saying that Bud Light is still struggling with the boycott that has reduced its sale by a whopping 28% over the four weeks leading up to Dec. 9 — and heading to the all-important New Year’s sale period. The tragic irony for the company is that Alissa Heinerscheid, vice president of marketing for Bud Light, sought to dismantle Bud Light’s “fratty reputation.” She succeeded. It is now the symbol of woke companies for many and consumers seem to be treating the company as a vehicle to express their opposition to the social and political campaigns of companies from Disney to Nike.

Then there was recently this from James Bennet, the former — and resigned — editorial-page editor of the New York Times. Bennet was writing in the Economist about his forced departure from the Times for having the audacity to publish an op-ed from Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton. Cotton had called for ordering the National Guard to restore public order in American cities that were being subjected to riots — violence, murder, looting, and burning — in cities across the nation in the summer of 2020.

Said Bennet, with bold print for emphasis supplied:

The old liberal embrace of inclusive debate that reflected the country’s breadth of views had given way to a new intolerance for the opinions of roughly half of American voters….

Conservative arguments in the Opinion pages reliably started uproars within the Times. Sometimes I would hear directly from colleagues who had the grace to confront me with their concerns; more often they would take to the company’s Slack channels or Twitter to advertise their distress in front of each other….

The bias had become so pervasive, even in the senior editing ranks of the newsroom, as to be unconscious….

One day when I relayed a conservative’s concern about double standards to [Times publisher A.G.] Sulzberger, he lost his patience. He told me to inform the complaining conservative that that’s just how it was: there was a double standard and he should get used to it.

In short?

Whether it is Harvard, Anheuser-Busch, the New York Times, or multiples of multiples of other educational, corporate, media, and more institutions, the cancer of totalitarian-minded wokeness has infected American institutions. And no dissent is allowed because, as the Times publisher acknowledged, “that’s just how it was.”

Make no mistake. The American people get it — and millions have rebelled not just by no longer drinking Bud Light or spurning Harvard or the Times but … by supporting former President Donald Trump.

To which the reaction from the wokesters is unbridled contempt. Which, in turn, makes Trump supporters even more resolute.

That the woke crowd looks down on Trump supporters is self-evident.

Take Harvard’s resigned-president Gay.

Taking to the pages of — where else? — the New York Times, Gay writes this, bold print for emphasis supplied:

I will deny demagogues the opportunity to further weaponize my presidency in their campaign to undermine the ideals animating Harvard since its founding: excellence, openness, independence, truth.

And right there is a blatant untruth. In fact, it was Gay herself who demonstrated in both her plagiarized academic writings and in her congressional testimony that she herself refused to live up to “excellence, openness, independence, truth.” She is instead, by virtue of her own actions, the epitome of demanding to be judged by the progressive standards that are not about “excellence, openness, independence, truth” but, rather, race, gender, and progressive politics.

Gay also says in her Times piece:

As I depart, I must offer a few words of warning. The campaign against me was about more than one university and one leader. This was merely a single skirmish in a broader war to unravel public faith in pillars of American society. Campaigns of this kind often start with attacks on education and expertise, because these are the tools that best equip communities to see through propaganda. But such campaigns don’t end there. Trusted institutions of all types — from public health agencies to news organizations — will continue to fall victim to coordinated attempts to undermine their legitimacy and ruin their leaders’ credibility. For the opportunists driving cynicism about our institutions, no single victory or toppled leader exhausts their zeal.

Translation? The woke war declared on America and Americans by woke American institutions is under attack by the peasants of the non-woke. Whether it is Harvard, Bud Light, or the Times and more, non-woke Americans are refusing to sit silently and accept this nonsense.

And the unmentioned leader of the woke rebellion in this Gay op-ed is, of course, Donald Trump.

Which is exactly why the woke hate Trump. It is exactly why the Trump base is so passionate in their support. It is exactly why — for every lawfare, woke, weaponized indictment of the former president — his polls go up and his support intensifies.

The Trump supporters understand vividly that Trump is exactly right when he says:

They’re not after me. They’re after you … I’m just standing in their way!

Bingo.

Indeed, Newsweek headlines this:

Exclusive: Donald Trump Followers Targeted by FBI as 2024 Election Nears

The story reports:

The federal government believes that the threat of violence and major civil disturbances around the 2024 U.S. presidential election is so great that it has quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump‘s army of MAGA followers.

Which in turn explains this headline from a New York Post piece by the aforementioned Jonathan Turley, attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. Headlines Turley:

It’s not just Trump: Democrats are moving to bar Republicans from ballots nationwide

Yes, they are. And, as Turley points out, one of their targets is my own Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry, whom I have discussed in this space earlier. (READ THE PIECE: ‘Republicans Against Perry’: The Republicans Who Aren’t Republicans)

In short?

Make no mistake. At bottom what the “woke” movement is all about is the bluntest fascism. They are determined to wipe the ballot of not just Trump but Republicans in general. In other words, they are determined to destroy democracy.

And the American people get it.

Which is exactly why they are rallying to former President Donald Trump.

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