Michael Goodwin: Harvard is jeopardizing $9B in federal funding to lead the radical lefts anti-Trump agenda so much for the best and brightest

The Democrats have finally found the leader of their resistance to President Trump.No, it’s not Sen.Cory Booker and his self-serving 25-hour floor speech.Nor is it Sen.

Bernie Sanders or his first-class-flying socialist partner, Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.Or any of the misguided mayors and governors shielding migrant criminals from deserved deportation.And it’s certainly not the idiotic vandals defacing Teslas with swastikas.Instead, the honor of leading the resistance against the president of the United States goes to Harvard. Why Harvard?Because The New York Times, the spokesman and ringleader for the radical left, says so.The Gray Lady has appointed Harvard to the job.In an article that hails the Ivy League school’s rejection of any White House penalties over eruptions of antisemitism on its campus, Times writer Elisabeth Bumiller approvingly quotes several people who praise Harvard’s stance and declare that it carries political significance way beyond the actual issues involved. Her larger point is clear: This is war with an administration the left loves to hate.

Bring it on!Bumiller and Harvard arrive at this conclusion only by following a tortured path.The inversion of facts is so bizarre that they end up echoing pre-Civil War slave holders’ claims about states’ rights. In this case, Harvard and its defenders act as if antisemitic campus rallies are a civil right for the school instead of a violation of Jewish students’ civil rights!And, unlike Columbia, which had the good sense to accept federal demands, Harvard is ready to fight.In their letter rejecting intervention, Harvard’s lawyers say it “will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”As others have noted, what would we call this blanket defense if the students who had been harmed were black instead of Jews?In refusing even to negotiate, the so-called best and brightest have opened themselves to massive financial penalties. The blowback started ...