This is a gutting of the scientific research establishment which has created much of American prosperity since World War II, when the US used the promise of survival and stable funding to lure academics from Germany.
This is a gutting of the scientific research establishment which has created much of American prosperity since World War II, when the US used the promise of survival and stable funding to lure academics from Germany.
I believe you are missing the point by latching on to one sentence and replying to that instead of the concept.
You are as wrong about them all being bad as they are saying all democrats are bad.
Nah. They had his first term to figure it out. Then they had every time he’s opened his mouth since then, the 2020 debates, the 2024 campaign, all the news about Project 2025, the JD Vance “I will lie if that’s what it takes” moment, and so very many more.
And when Trump looked like he might be imploding a few months ago, they all started jumping ship, and distancing themselves. And the moment he was back in power the sucking up began again.
Oh, you meant the folks who aren’t in office who only voted for him?
How many of them spent his first term writing to their Republican representatives complaining about them being in bed with white nationalists? How many of them registered their displeasure about project 2025? How many of them wrote in to tell their representatives that the lies about the 2020 election were destroying the nation? How many wrote in to tell off their representatives for objecting to the certification of the 2020 election? How many wrote in to complain when every single Republican in the House of Representatives voted against investigating the penetration of white nationalists into the military and law enforcement? How many wrote in to stand up for Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, and Mitt Romney, all of whom I also don’t like, but who were the only R to speak truth to power in his first term?
A vanishingly small percentage, that’s how many. Because if it weren’t, this wouldn’t be true: