What’s firstly puzzling about the right’s Ivy League and Ivy League-adjacent hatred, and the belief that so much of what ails us is an effect of what "they're teaching" on campus, is that so many of their own attended Ivy League schools themselves. Tom Cotton attended Harvard and Harvard Law, Ted Cruz went to Princeton before Harvard Law, while Ron De Santis attended Yale before Harvard Law. Trump Supreme Court appointees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh attended Harvard and Yale Law respectively, while the Trump appointee conservatives most love to disdain (Amy Coney Barrett) attended Notre Dame Law.
It's just a comment that conservative disdain for the Ivy League is frequently self-hatred. Somehow so many of the right’s greats emerged from the Ivy League with ideology intact, but supposedly this time is different?
It’s not. Conservative laments about left-leaning universities are as old as universities.
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