‘Return To McCarthyism’: Democratic
Senator Calls Trump Authoritarian For
Targeting Elitist Institution’s Funding
Daily Caller News Foundation,
by
Harold Hutchison
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
4/2/2025 4:05:43 PM
Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey claimed Tuesday President Donald Trump channeled “McCarthyism” by threatening to pull over $200 million in federal funds for Harvard University.
The Trump administration is investigating the Ivy League school over its failure to address antisemitism on campus, particularly since the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by the radical Islamic terrorist group Hamas that killed over 1,200 people in Israel. Markey claimed the crackdown on antisemitism would “turn out very poorly” for the United States. [Video]
“Look, anti-Semitism is wrong, anti-Semitism must be fought, anti-Semitism is something that we cannot tolerate in our nation,” Markey claimed. “But authoritarianism is not the answer to anti-Semitism.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Northcross 4/2/2025 4:11:33 PM (No. 1925547)
Give Markey credit. He said McCarthy when he could have said Hitler. Maybe a 25 hour speech would help to elaborate, Ed. It worked so well for Cory Booker.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/2/2025 4:17:58 PM (No. 1925548)
Nothing makes them squeal louder than be cut off from taxpayer funding. The Harvard crowd thinks lowly of those funding them. Maybe we should stop it!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
snakeoil 4/2/2025 4:25:49 PM (No. 1925551)
Senator Marlekey wants to oppose anti-Semitism by jumping up and down during the riots. Cut the money and the desired result occurs.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 4/2/2025 4:42:50 PM (No. 1925555)
Ed Markey? Isn’t he dead yet?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Grateful 4/2/2025 4:56:31 PM (No. 1925561)
Ed Malarkey is a poster child for the common sense disadvantaged.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 4/2/2025 4:59:30 PM (No. 1925562)
Authoritarianism? Hardly. What would they have said if Harvard was allowing KKK rallies on campus? They would have screamed bloody murder and asked Trump to send troops and arrest them all.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 4/2/2025 5:12:56 PM (No. 1925574)
We need a new term to describe the actions of Congessional Democrats: thanks to them we are trillions of $$$ in debt, almost buried under a tsunami of illegal aliens, a shrunken economy thanks to Dems selling out the American people for a nice fat bribe, selling fear to minorities to get their vote only to ignore them for 4 years at a time. How about we call the TRAITORS?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
slipstik 4/2/2025 5:18:32 PM (No. 1925581)
Ed baby, if you want to suck at the udder of the American taxpayers, you have to follow a few rules. One of them is you can't hate Jews to death anymore. Those days are over Ed, get with it. Haahhvadd, you too.
In addition Eddie my boy, "Authoritarian" is to close the school and burn it to the ground, not restricting taxpayer funding to a school with billions in endowments and donations.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NYbob 4/2/2025 5:58:51 PM (No. 1925615)
I want to see how Markey made all the money he has. He has been a government parasite for decades. Was it insider trading eddy, or slush fund contributions to your endless campaigning? I really, really, hope all the big talk from the high profile Trump administration eventually bags ONE big name rat. Markey is as good a place to start as any. Get it done!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
czechlist 4/2/2025 6:17:12 PM (No. 1925627)
Harvard University endowment, valued at $50.7 billion as of June 30, 2023
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 4/2/2025 6:17:48 PM (No. 1925629)
Nearly every one of those "elite" institutions can afford to not receive Federal funds.
I put the word elite in parenthesis because they willingly lost that honor to be considered elite or prestigious.
Today's Democrats seem to think it's just A-okay to hate against anyone they don't like or that does not think like they do.
As far as authoritarian, one is quickly reminded of the DEMAND to take a shot or you could not leave your house, go to work, board an airplane, etc...
Democrats pushed that and continued long after they KNEW it was not warranted any longer but the enjoyed the power that came from the authoritarian regimes they created under an emergency "executive" order.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 4/2/2025 6:26:09 PM (No. 1925641)
Ignore this overpaid horse's hind end.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
skacmar 4/2/2025 7:04:38 PM (No. 1925668)
Maybe some other hate group (Hamas is a hate group) should start protesting on some college campus and harass whatever race/religion students they dislike. They should also prevent other students from getting to their classes with out harassment and block fre access to campus for everyone. Maybe they could set up a tent city in the middle of campus as a whatever race/religion free zone and deny entry to anyone but the people that they allow in. And don't foret, no speaking to the media because they are the enemy. How would MSNBC, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, NY TImes, LA Times, Atlantic, and all ofthe other liberal media cover this? Surely not the positive lovefest that the pro-Palestine/Hamas protesters receive.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Miceal 4/2/2025 7:12:29 PM (No. 1925674)
What this dolt forgets, McCarthy was correct...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
volksford 4/2/2025 7:12:46 PM (No. 1925675)
No more tax dollars to these Ivy League jackasses
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
3XALADY 4/2/2025 7:24:46 PM (No. 1925686)
I'm wondering how many billions Uncle Sugar is passing out to all these colleges and universities every year. Why? Don't they pay tuition to cover the expenses?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
BarryNo 4/2/2025 8:36:31 PM (No. 1925728)
Joe McCarthy was RIGHT!!
He correctly identified the Communist infiltrators that the Democrats were protecting. Red China happened with Democrat help! Soviet Russia was supported to make a bogeyman to justify Military appropriations for their Military Industrial Complex friends and allies. Senator Ted Kennedy sent lettwers the the USSR that were found when that political entity failed.
McCarthy's problem was he didn't have allies to defend his back. He was CANCELED!
The Democrats have decades of crimes to pay for!!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
commonsence 4/2/2025 8:44:58 PM (No. 1925735)
Markey is against Trump's protecting jewish students, he must be an anti-Semite
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
franco 4/2/2025 9:14:23 PM (No. 1925753)
Harvard has been described as a world-class hedge fund attached to a substandard educational institution. I see no reason why the American taxpayer should subsidize such an "educational" institution. It's time for that hedge fund to liquidate some of its assets to keep its substandard school afloat. The taxpayers have had enough of it!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mifla 4/3/2025 5:45:35 AM (No. 1925824)
I seem to remember Trump's predecessor wagging his finger at the unvaccinated, telling them that he was losing patience with them. Who is the authoritarian?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
5 handicap 4/3/2025 6:01:20 AM (No. 1925831)
History and the filthy communists of the Democrat Party have pproven beyond ANY doubt that McCarthy was RIGHT all along!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
broken01 4/3/2025 12:17:36 PM (No. 1926047)
One of the dumbest members of the senate calling a Republican President authoritarian? I guess dead from the neck up Ed Markey has forgotten how authoritarian his president Biden was. Such as when he had the DOJ sic the FBI on parents who took issue with schools teaching their kids CRT nonsense. I say pull the taxpayer funding from Harvard and other leftist ideology indoctrination centers masquerading as institutions of higher learning.
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