A federal bureaucrat largely responsible for Trump’s war on the universities is Ross Douthat’s guest in this week’s “Interesting Times.” Practically the first words out of her mouth are that Trump wants to put an end to the culture of victimization in higher education. Does that make sense?
Only if you’re a comedian. Trump’s entire political brand is built on the sense of victimization he shares with his angry white followers. When he complains about “victimization,” he means identifying the wrong people–ethnic minorities, women, and LGBTQ people, not white Christians–as victims.