PERSPECTIVES: Trump’s “Prestige University/Blue State” Extortion Strategy

Cartoon from The Economist

From The Hill: “He’s not going after every highly selective, well-resourced institution. He’s going after highly selective, well-resourced institutions that happen to be in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New York. These are in blue states. They’re name-brand institutions that a lot of Americans recognize. They are institutions that the president has spent two years trying to stereotype and caricature as being out of touch with American values,” said Jon Fansmith, senior vice president for government relations and national engagement at the American Council of Education. Read more here.

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