Harvard’s Leftist Bias Exposed: A Closer Look
CNN’s Evan Perez tried to brush off President Trump’s claim that Harvard is a “cesspool of leftist thinking.” He pointed to a few conservative alumni like Ted Cruz, Neil Gorsuch, and Tom Cotton as if they balanced the scale. That move fell flat pretty fast.
Perez leaned on the typical liberal playbook. He conveniently ignored that a whopping 76% of faculty identify as “liberal” or “very liberal” while only 3% say they’re conservative. These numbers speak for themselves.
His argument was shallow at best. As he said, “Now, one of the things that I think is lost upon this is that there’s plenty of conservatives that have come from Harvard: Tom Cotton, Neil Gorsuch, Ted Cruz, you know, over the years, Harvard has produced a lot of conservatives. So, the idea that Harvard is some cesspool of leftist thinking, I think is not quite what the, you know, certainly what the president believes is not quite what we know is true,” making it sound like a half-hearted excuse rather than a real argument. And then Wolf Blitzer chimed in with “Excellent point. Thank you very much, Evan, for that.” It’s a pat on the back that does nothing to change the facts.
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Here’s where the real story hits home. Harvard’s own class data shows only 13% of the class of 2024 identified as conservative while 59% called themselves progressive. This isn’t about a few maverick conservatives sneaking through—it’s an entire system skewed left.
It’s the same tired media trick. They’d never say Fox News is balanced just because it has one or two Democrats, yet they try to use a handful of conservative Harvard alumni to defend a campus drowning in liberal ideology.
President Trump was spot on for calling out the radical leanings at Harvard. The push to hold Harvard accountable—whether it’s reviewing its tax-exempt status or demanding honesty about anti-Semitic activities—is long overdue. The liberal media’s quick defense is just a cover-up hiding the real issues.
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