Rachel Maddow Reminds America That Fighting Back Against Trump Is An Option

Rachel Maddow used the example of Harvard to remind America's companies and citizens that they can all say no and fight back against Trump.

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Somebody finally said no to Donald Trump’s extortion racket. Mark Zuckerberg didn’t say no. ABC News didn’t say no. It looks like CBS News is going to eventually pay up. The high-powered law firms allowed themselves to be shaken down by Donald Trump.

The mainstream media fired Trump critics from their airwaves and were some of the first in line to bend the knee.

As Trump has moved on to shaking down institutions of higher education, Harvard University said no.

It is big news because they are Harvard.

Rachel Maddow used Harvard as an example to remind everyone else in America that they, too, can say no to Trump.

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Maddow said:

 This was a stand-up Harvard rally that happened in terrible rain and sleet and cold in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Saturday afternoon. The theme was effectively courage, not capitulation. People are trying to, to shore up Harvard to tell them that they've got the gravitas and the weight and the wealth, that if they can't lead, who can?

That they should not capitulate to Trump's threats, to Trump's demands to let him essentially take over and subjugate the universities. It has thus far been war on international students, war on academic freedom, war on campus, free speech. It's been war on government research funding. It's about to be war on university endowments.