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Two of the key people involved in trying to force elite universities to adopt conservative principles are in fact, graduates of the universities they are trying to browbeat into submission. Gregory Brown was a fundraiser for the University of Virginia before he joined the Trump administration to lead the crackdown on his alma mater. He is making progress, since he forced the president of U.Va. out. He is further working to destroy the progressive culture that dominates the school.
Daniel Wasserman was an editor of the Harvard Law Review when he was a law student at Harvard. He clashed with his more liberal classmates when there. Now he is leading an investigation of the publication as a White House employee.
Josh Gruenbaum repeatedly confronted pro-Palestinian activists at New York University while he was studying business and law there. Now he is on a Trump task force investigating antisemitism. He and other officials have described how being a conservative at elite universities made them feel isolated.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt praised the young government officials who have turned on their alma maters. She said Trump wants people with lived experience leading the charge.
Leading the battle to reshape the elite universities is Stephen Miller, himself a graduate of an elite university (Duke). He wants to kill off all DEI programs and imbue future students with a conservative worldview so it makes sense to him to hire conservative graduates of the universities he wants to destroy. They know the enemy well. (V)