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On Brown’s ransom payment to and deal with the Trumpistas

Cornell law professor Michael Dorf comments.  An excerpt:

Calling out the hypocrisy of the Trump administration is, of course, too easy. After all, we have a president supported by actual Nazis who uses the claim that he is fighting antisemitism as a pretext to bully [sic] universities. In noting that the anti-woke warriors in and aligned with the Trump administration are doing more to damage free speech than wokeness ever was, my main point is not to observe irony or decry hypocrisy. My point is to be clear about the threat.

"Bully" is the wrong word in this context, since this is not a school playground.  "Coerce and intimidate" would be more apt for what the Trumpistas are doing.

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