Had a surreal moment in class recently. My Professor has been ramping up the Imperial Edicts rhetoric since that politician came to town, expect that to be the new talking point for the next few days. But he was talking about how cruel it was and how it was an abuse of power, yadda yadda etc etc.
But then he gives an exact explanation, saying that Executive Orders are not laws, and should only apply to the management of the administration of the Executive branch. That, for example, him threatening to cut funding to Harvard for Antisemitism was flat out illegal because they are not directly part of the government.
The problem is, that is flat out incorrect. And he showed us why this was incorrect, because he just finished talking about affirmative action last week. Plain as day, a president enforcing what the contractors and subcontractors of the government could do. I even looked up the wording on it because I thought maybe I was just missing something. This wasn't just the regular, snide ways they lie by omission or only want a source from one of the three meganews networks. It was like seeing a math teacher say that 2+2=5. And everyone in the class just nodded along with this. For as much as they talk about the cultlike nature of republicans, the way they have been talking recently has been concerning. It's like the TDS is starting to override even their lower brain functions at this point.
