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United States President Donald Trump speaks in the White House, in front of a portrait of Ronald Reagan, in Washington, March 28, 2025. (Pool via AP)

How Donald Trump’s assault on universities echoes earlier American conservative ideas

It is easy to recognize the ideas of philosopher James Burnham, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Ronald Reagan, in arguments and actions of the Trump administration.
Three civil rights groups filed a lawsuit in October 2020 challenging Donald Trump’s executive order that banned federal agencies from offering certain diversity training. AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File

Undoing the ‘deep state’ means Trump would undo over a century of progress in building a federal government for the people and not just for rich white men

Conservatives defend efforts to dismantle the federal bureaucracy as tactics against tyranny, but Americans exercise their sovereignty through these civil services.

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