Which is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. The US never deserved that trust and respect.

We very well may not recover the science and technology lead we had. Or medical - we may have a horrible system of healthcare but top notch development of treatments and technologies.

Or more importantly, we’re squandering the possibility of developing manufacturing for the next few decades on the attempt to develop manufacturing of the past.

And yes, immigrants. So much of what has made the us great has come from immigrants coming here to build a better life for themselves. So much of our economy, our innovation, our research, and yes our culture. If we succeed in driving away that flow, then we’re just another aging has been, with too many old people, not able to afford to maintain everything we built in the past

It lost mine in the Reagan era, so it's nothing new. Trump is a point on a curve that you've been following for decades. That also means that the Republicans can do even worse than Trump, and probably will.

When you consider education itself to be “leftist” and prefer indoctrination and dogma to critical thinking and the scientific method, it makes more sense.

I, too, have a hard time reconciling a private, extremely expensive education facility catering to the 1% as "leftists".

When you're a Nazi, like many in Trump's administration, everything looks like a stronghold of the left.

The thing is you can’t deny they are a center of science, research, innovation. Harvard is one institution that makes US stand out globally, and drives so much of what we think of as our exceptionalism. This truly is an attack on our future.

When my son was little, he had a very aggressive form of cancer. He came through it with treatment developed by Harvard research. In the couple decades before, Harvard directed research had driven mortality down from 90% to 10%. Now Trump wants to punish Harvard out of personal spite and one of the first things he does is cut research at Children’s hospital? How can you still call yourself human?

I've said it several times. Harvard runs shit in the Boston area more than people outside the New England area realize.

Here

Harvard runs shit, in broad daylight secrecy, from within a democratic stronghold.

Yeah, I disagree with the saying “respect is earned, not given”. But that’s because I define respect as treating others like a person and with dignity.

Therefore, I believe respect should be given, and not earned.

Also remember that whenever Trump talks about things being good or bad for 'America', he means himself.

Or at all.

What does he care; with his health he’ll be dead in 5 years anyways.