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In mid-December, as news spread of a large suspected Russian cyberattack, with daily new COVID-19 cases reaching a quarter-million, U.S. President Donald Trump announced members of a special task force on patriotic education that would de-emphasize slavery as America’s foundational crime.
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trying to recruit conservative students. you have to remember young republicans have complained for years that universities have been given wide latitude to cancel conservative speakers by citing things like security costs and threats of violence. sean. sean: trace gallagher in our west coast newsroom tonight. thank you as always. here with reaction, author of the brand-new book the case for trump, senior fellow at the hoover institution, frankly edginess professor and his own right, historian victor davis hanson is with us. i look at how conservatives are treated on college campuses. it s amazing to me because supposedly you have open-minded liberal academia. they say that they are they arr free speech but not conservative speech. why is this inordinate fear of just allowing somebody to give a different point of view.
speech if they want federal funding. [cheers and applause]. tucker: that was the president over the weekend at cpac. american colleges once had the freest speech in the world. that was directly related to the fact they were the best in the world. now, american higher education is dominated by fascists who tolerate a single set of ideas. the president s executive order will seek to change that. it is unclear exactly what it will say but obviously we will follow follow it. in the meantime victor davis hanson is a college professor and author of the case for trump. thank you very much for coming on. congrats on the book. inwhat do you think this execute order is likely to say and what should it say? well, it s trying to restore some balance on campuses.
executive requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal funding. [cheers and applause]. tucker: that was the president over the weekend at cpac. american colleges once had the freest speech in the world. that was directly related to the fact they were the best in the world. now, american higher education is dominated by fascists who tolerate a single set of ideas. the president s executive order will seek to change that. in the meantime victor davis hanson is a college professor and author of the case for trump. congrats on the book. what do you think this executive order is likely to say and what should it say? well, it s trying to restore some balance on campuses. it functions at 2 levels. politically it forces the