Nearly three in four voters — 73 percent — favor Mr. Trump’s order last week that required U.S. colleges to protect free speech or risk losing federal research dollars, according to a poll conducted by McLaughlin & Associates for the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale.
Democratic lawmakers and liberal activists countered that suppression of speech on campus was rare and the executive order was actually intended to boost conservative thought in the U.S.
“President Trump doesn’t have a license to blackmail universities. He’s the president, not a dictator, and his empty threats are an abuse of power,” tweeted Rep. Barbara Lee, a California Democrat whose district includes the Berkeley campus.
In the poll, support for the executive order came in slightly higher among Republicans (76 percent to 15 percent) than among Democrats (71 percent to 20 percent) and independents (72 percent to 19 percent).
Well Barbara Lee. The President may not be a dictator, but he certainly does have the authority to made a determination like this one. More to the point, the general public (across the board) actually agrees with him.
Considering the large amount of Americans who disagree with Trump as a unconscious knee jerk reaction, it's pretty amazing that he could get this sort of support for anything!
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This will live in history, just as important as the "Have you no shame?" during the McCarthy era.
*The day America lost its way.
You are O.K. with these facts:
*The Russians offered dirt on the Democratic candidate to help the Trump campaign.
*When that offer was made to the president’s son, he did not call the FBI or refuse foreign help. Instead he said that he would love the help of the Russians.
*The president’s son, campaign manager, and son-in-law took that meeting and concealed it from the public.
*When it was discovered that the meeting took place, they lied about it—saying it was about adoptions.
*It is reported that the president helped dictate that lie. Air Force One
*The Trump campaign manager offered information to a Russian oligarch in exchange for money or debt forgiveness.
*That same campaign manager offered campaign polling data to someone connected to Russian intelligence.
*The president himself called on Russia to hack his opponent’s emails and later that day, the Russians attempted to do so.
*They attempted to hack into the DNC email accounts. The very next day!
*The president’s son-in-law sought to establish a secret back channel of communication with Russians through a Russian diplomatic facility.
*An associate of the president made direct contact with the GRU through Guccifer 2.0 and Wikileaks.
*A senior campaign official was instructed to reach that associate and find out what that hostile intelligence agency had to say in terms of dirt on his opponent.
*The national security advisor designate secretly conferred with the Russian ambassador about undermining U.S. sanctions and lied about it to the FBI.
*You might say that’s all O.K.
*You might say that’s just what you need to do to win. But I don’t think it’s O.K. I think it’s immoral. I think it’s unethical. I think it’s unpatriotic. And yes, I think it’s corrupt and evidence of collusion…The day we think that’s O.K. is the day we will look back and say, “That is the day America lost its way.”
The President may not be a dictator, yet.
But you can't wait!
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