If politics can be said to be a team sport, then MSNBC host and Thursday Morning Joe panelist Al Sharpton is the coach who puts the ball on the tee, and Rep. Jamie Raskin is the batter who takes the easy swing. Sharpton asked if a federal judge ruling President Trump illegally withheld funding from Harvard proves that his anti-DEI policies are political, and Raskin dutifully replied they are, going so far as to label them “Stalinist.”
Sharpton wondered:
I want to ask you, following up what you just said. Do you feel that the whole fight around DEI, which in many cases have been distorted, now can have a clear view that this is something that the administration is politicizing and that the academic community has been trying to deal with more on a balanced way, not an advocacy way, and that this ruling can help bring that forward, even though it will likely be appealed by the president and go to a Trump Supreme Court, at least that's what they'll try to do?
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