- According to the congressional coalition, 23 Democrats led by Kevin Mullin did not comply with 11 court orders until March 5.
- There are increasing voices that claim Trump's ambition to introduce even greater changes than those postulated by P2025. possibly it's about trying to put an end to all the advancement made in racial relations in America in the last 60 years.
- Trump's colonial appetite for Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal will make Europe and America susceptible to military conflicts, many parts of the world
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400 million dollars on ft doesn't walk, but everyone knows that an institution with the reputation of Columbia could easy do without that money. The privilege and discrimination of schools creating the celebrated Ivy League is that they have very generous donors and budgets fed annually not by multimillion but multibillion-dollar endowments, or donations.
It beats the eyes that Columbia’s decision had to be dictated by something completely different from poverty. What? To answer that question, you request to look at a fewer things. Not only Columbia's “spore” with Trump for frozen grants, but besides a wider, decades-long conflict on American universities-right lines. And at the end, put it all in the context of the task 2025 described many times on these pages. And halt at it due to the fact that it is the key to knowing the current situation in America. In the black tunnel of history, the country is being pushed deeper and deeper not by Trump's chaotic movements, but by perfectly coordinated actions of right-wing ideologists standing behind task 2025.
Cloth of the university
What did she do to the Conservatives of Columbia? Actually, Student protests related to the outbreak of the Gaza War. These were pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli speeches, although it is worth remembering that solidarity with the Palestinians was not their theme. Students demanded first of all that the university retreat its investments from Israel-based companies. And they had their reasons.
After all, from the beginning, America has taken the position that it provides unconditional support to Israel, while Columbia, like many another private universities in the country, was a shareholder in arms companies, investing in tuition in addition. Students understood this in specified a way that their own money kills civilians in Gaza.
Mateusz Krymski, Adam Earthenowicz / PAPHowever, Columbia’s right-wing politicians were not targeted until judaic communities complained in public that judaic students do not feel comfortable and even fear for their safety. Whether there truly was harassment and persecution of Jews at the university – this remains to be explained. However, Columbia felt that she should respond to her allegations of alleged disregard for the welfare of any of her subjects, and after a wave of peculiarly intense protests in the spring of 2024 she sent police against demonstrators. She may have done so on the advice of the White House.
After all, the 2024 presidential run entered a decisive phase and the Democrats were increasingly wondering whether the Palestinian case would harm them in the same way as the protests against the Vietnam War in 1968 (on their wave of politician Hubert Humphrey lost to Republican Richard Nixon at the time). Especially since Trump had already crushed them, convincing voters that they had not managed to seal the confederate border, so they would not be able to keep safety and order on American streets. Republican presidential candidate eagerly presented youth protests as a foretaste of anarchy that would grow in the country under the left.
Return Salem
The second crucial brick in building the context of the relation between universities and the right is "Academic Witch Hunt" of December 2023 We are talking about hearings of MIT, Harvard and University of Pennsylvania rectors, held in legislature by Republican politicians over a wave of protests that swept through campuses immediately after the war in Gaza broke out. The accusations were in general: from anti-Semitism, through the promotion of plagiarism practices, to the systematic discrimination of scientists and lecturers on conservative views. After hearings, 2 rectors resigned. Sally Kornbluth of MIT survived only due to the fact that she was judaic herself and received immense support from her community.
It did not substance that the charges made to the academics were subsequently verified and mostly overturned. In the eyes of a statistical bread eater, the Academy was rightly punished and discredited, and the favourite conservative thesis that "universities are hostages to communism and the enemy of the values from which America grew" (in the words of the father of modern American conservatism, William Buckely, from his iconic work "God and Man at Yale", 1951), publically proven.
However, the top success of the right was something else. She managed to send a clear signal to the Academy: if you think you will proceed to run your business as usual – you are in large error.
Columbia surrenders
Let's go back to the day Columbia finds out there's no way to number on $400 million in national dollars. 7 March this year, a peculiar and not accidental moment. First,, it has just been six weeks since Trump again made himself at the White House, and everyone has managed to get free of the illusions that his election promises and announcements of aggressive rematching were just run rhetoric.
Second, March 8, immigration police arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a erstwhile Columbia student and protest leader of 2024. Khalil, even though he's a legal resident, has a green card, heard allegations that he lied about immigration applications and would so be expelled. erstwhile this text was written, Khalil was waiting for deportation.
In the following days, a number of another students faced a akin fate, and although they sued the government for taking their constitutional right to protest and freedom of speech, they learned that the case would not be so obvious. For they are accused, not of protest, but of espionage. This charge will be much harder to fight. Now entrenched with loyalists and many years of Trump's lawyers The Justice Department is notoriously blocking access to information, covering itself with national secrecy.
Columbia capitulated on March 21, the day after Trump signed the executive order to liquidate the Department of Education. As an educational institution, she has at this point removed her last illusions as to whether she can last at all if she does not accept a humble associate’s attitude toward the present authority.
Governments like a textbook
However, the wave of horror spread not only after the Academy that day. The liquidation of the Department of Education was the flagship goal of task 2025 created between 2021 and 2022 by Christian nationalists centered around the perfect forge of the right, The Heritage Foundation. So if by now there have been any incorrect optimists clinging to the belief that Trump did not lie during the campaign, claiming that nothing about task 2025 knows and he is completely not curious in it, now they have had a hard run-in with reality.
They have been given tangible evidence that the implementation of the guidelines contained in the paper on the right-wing take over of the state and society as a full goes hand in hand.
How precisely is this going? From the information provided by those tracking the compliance of task 2025 (P2025) with Trump's political line, e.g. writer Adrienne Cobb, who runs the social media account r/Keep_Track, it appears that as early as the first month, Trump's presidency succeeded in 1 3rd of the 300 P2025 guidelines (About a 3rd of task 2025 Has Allready Been Completed), Heatmap News, 17 February 2025).
In turn, Forbes wrote in an article under the eloquent title "How Trump's executive regulations overlap with task 2025, while its author admits that The presidential momentum passed his wildest expectations": "Many high-ranking officials and candidates in Trump's second administration personally participated in the creation of task 2025, including national Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr, elder Trade and manufacture Advisor Peter Navarro, Head of Securities and Exchange Commission Paul Atkins, and Trump Tom Homan's "Car of the Border". (...) Trump besides appointed Aaron Szabo, co-author of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chapter, as Deputy admin of the Air and Radiation Bureau. The most significant, however, is that Russell Vought, considered the key architect of P2025, became the manager of the most crucial law firm at the White home – the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)".
We do not have area to look at all the guidelines that Trump has already addressed, so I will mention only the most controversial and terrifying ones, and at the same time almost virtually reflect the directives contained in P2025. I present them behind Ed Cummings, author of the article “Project 2025. A extremist plan announcing Trump's most crucial movements, published in The Telegraph on 22 March 2025.
- Removing the USAID and withdrawing from supporting another global humanitarian aid organisations, specified as the Red Cross and agencies within the UN. Guideline of P2025: "The fresh conservative administration will have the chance to revise American commitment to global aid (...), will end utilizing this aid to spread the extremist ideology of Biden's administration, which divides us in the country and spoils our reputation in the world."
- Massive reduction, staff and financial, national sector budgeting led by DOGE (Government Efficiency Department commanded by billionaire Elon Musk) in the name of combating alleged corruption. Guideline of P2025: "Reduction of agencies, budgets to the lowest levels in past (...); increased efforts to employment only political loyalists in the sector".
- A extremist change of course in climate policy: Eliminating regulations on greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption limits for household appliances, ending the electrical car subsidy strategy and investing in green energy production. Guideline of P2025: “The fresh administration must immediately retreat from Biden’s policy course, reconstruct the plan of energy dominance from Trump’s first presidency. (...) To end the war on fossil fuels and another available minerals, to begin their operation on land controlled by Indian and Indian tribes” (using the words “Indian” and “Indian” after the original).
- Aggressive government war with DEI programmes (diversity, equality, inclusiveness), critical race explanation (KTR), LGBTQ+ community rights (including decree on the existence of only 2 sexes) and any another manifestations of diversity, specified as the hanging of Black Lives substance flags or rainbows on public buildings. Guideline P2025: ‘Execute Marxist indoctrination, the KTR, destruct all DEI programs and release all personnel who service them’.
Back to segregation?
There are increasing voices that claim Trump's ambition to introduce even greater changes than those postulated by P2025. Perhaps it is an effort to put an end to all the advancement made in racial relations in America over the last 60 years.
Russell Contreras, writer of the Axios Information Agency, reports that “on the day of the inauguration Trump had already signed a decree dismissing president Lyndon B. Johnson of 1965 ordering the creation of equal opportunities in the labour marketplace and national contracts to people another than white skin and women. Shortly after that, a note came out that the government would not categorically forbid its contractors from moving companies practicing racial segregation ("Trump's 2025 seeks to reverse LBJ's 1965", Axios, 22 March 2025).
Despite the shocking convergence between Trump's political course and the content of the "Fascist-Christian government manual", as many on the left call task 2025, experts stay divided on whether Trump intends to accomplish all the objectives of the ideologists from The Heritage Foundation. He has not yet taken steps towards liquidation of the Department of National safety and national Reserve and the introduction of a national ban on abortion and pornography, including the closure of technology companies to advance itwhat P2025 authors postulate.
You don't break out with a program modification either Obamacare in terms of the medical insurance exemption from the compulsory refund of contraceptives and the withdrawal from the sale of the ‘day after’ pill — movements that in P2025 are considered essential in the framework of ‘the conventional government guarding, the Bible-based definition of the purposes of matrimony and family’.
EPA/WILL OLIVER / PAPBarack Obama
Wolf has an appetite for more
But there's no reason to be happy. Trump not only takes America back 60 years in terms of civilian rights, but besides implements much more aggressive than P2025, immigration, economical and global policies.
The erstwhile had already placed his administration in conflict with the law, pushing the country towards a constitutional crisis, especially if Trump had chosen to ignore the ultimate Court's ruling. The rulings of lower instances are already ignoring.
According to the congressional coalition, 23 democrats led by Kevin Mullin did not comply with 11 court orders until March 5. The most serious skirmish on the White House-court line that could initiate a constitutional crisis so far was deportation of hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to prisons in El Salvador Without verifying whether they were actually members of dangerous gangs. On March 19th, a Virginia territory justice issued a restraining order, but the White home deliberately failed to comply with it.
The economical policy, which is symbolized by fresh customs wars, in many cases unjustified and targeted at existing friends, pushes America in the other direction than Trump's promised campaign. alternatively of a large America, Americans see a country where prices are rising, inflation is rising, and the marketplace – uncertain next day – begins to slow down workers and reduce investment.
Weekly ReviewThe accompanying declines in the stock marketplace and the failure of consumer assurance caused that on Monday 24 March economists from Moody’s Analytics, JPMorgan pursuit and Goldman Sachs estimated the hazard of recession in the next six months to 20-40 percent. In a nation as divided as America after the 2024 election, it cannot be ruled out that economical melting will bring desperate, disappointed, but above all angry people to the streets, leading the country even towards civilian war.
The course of American global policy, where a major change in administration's approach to the war in Ukraine takes place, does not request to be explained to any European. possibly – and hopefully! – Trump's hostile attitude to Europe and Ukraine will benefit us in the sense that by waking up from a dream of always ready to aid America, we will build safety with our own hands.
The point is that if Trump actually decides to play to the same goal as Putin – and who knows if this incredible alliance will not be joined by China, if, for example, in exchange for favorable economical cooperation they will have a free way to Taiwan's annexation – no more efforts will supply us with any security. Trump's colonial appetite for Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal will lead to Europe and America being pushed into military conflicts, in many parts of the world.
So what's ahead? I asked the political scientist Alexander Motyl of Rutgers University, fresh Jersey, an expert on nationalism and revolution due to the fact that I felt desperate for the reality I outlined in my deliberations. At first, he offered comfort.
– Revolutions that want to change everything at a fast pace, face unexpected obstacles just as quickly: things don't go as planned, assumptions don't work, interior arguments break out. Trump's revolution will neglect at the latest erstwhile it encounters an obstacle in the form of midterms elections – he replied, but after a while he added: – No revolution achieves its goals, but provokes a counter-revolution that comes after it to overthrow much of what revolutionaries fought for. The same will happen in the United States, but only if Trump's successor is not Vance. Expecting a loss, Trump can besides even cancel the presidential election, which – although sounds like a fantasy – is unfortunately possible.
I hope this fantasy never comes true.
