Harvard Prof. Steven Levitsky: Targeting of Harvard ‘Is Part of a Much Broader Attack on American Democracy’

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LEVITSKY: “We need to be very clear. This is an authoritarian government that is using the machinery of government, the state, as a weapon to punish, to bully, to silence business, media, law firms, universities and other elements of civil society. So, this is part of a much broader attack on American democracy. Autocrats go after universities. Autocrats — left-wing autocrats, centrist autocrats, right-wing autocratic. It’s hard to find an autocratic government that does not go after universities. And they always find a pretext. Sometimes it’s terrorism, sometimes it’s communism. In this case, Trump is using anti-Semitism.”