A new name has come up to take over the helm at Harvard University and he’s got the endorsement of Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) who thinks it would be a perfect fit.
The Pennsylvania Democrat enthusiastically endorsed his Senate colleague Mitt Romney as the ideal choice to clean up the mess at the elite Ivy League school now that its reputation is in tatters.
On Monday, Fetterman shared a Washington Post op-ed titled “Harvard is in an almighty mess. Let Mitt Romney clean it up,” giving the retiring Utah Republican two thumbs-up to restore decency at Harvard which became a nest of racists and anti-Semites under disgraced ex-prez Claudine Gay.
“As an alumnus of Harvard, and after this mad season of antisemitism at Columbia, I co-sign,” Fettermann wrote on X. “This former Governor of Massachusetts doesn’t need a paycheck, but Harvard and its academic peers needs to recalibrate from far-left orthodoxy.”
As an alumnus of Harvard, and after this mad season of antisemitism at Columbia, I co-sign.
This former Governor of Massachusetts doesn’t need a paycheck, but Harvard and its academic peers needs to recalibrate from far-left orthodoxy. pic.twitter.com/eaT0F5VaiR
— Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) April 22, 2024
“Romney has been nothing short of a profile in courage in the Senate, supporting gun safety reform and voting to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first black female Supreme Court justice,” the Liberal Washington Post op-ed states. “Importantly, he has been a staunch supporter of civil rights for all, including leveling heartfelt criticism at Harvard for failing to protect Jewish students. He can guide Harvard as it faces intense scrutiny from Congress and from an increasingly anxious — even angered — Jewish community.”
Romney’s connections to the ultra-liberal northeast state would seem to make him a natural to take over in Cambridge at a time when it’s becoming increasingly apparent that the state of higher education in America has never been more toxic, as the ongoing pro-Hamas protests at Columbia University in New York City are currently showing.
Whether it would be something he’d consider at 77 years old and without a crusade against former President Donald J. Trump as a motivating factor remains to be seen.
A much younger Romney was hailed as a heroic figure when he “salvaged the 2002 Winter Olympic Games from certain disaster,” his campaign website once boasted. Mitt was a major force in saving the games, which took place in Salt Lake City amid a bribery scandal and $400 million budget shortfall. The task at Harvard would be a far more daunting one considering the toxic culture that has now been gene-spliced into the once-esteemed university’s DNA.
Romney can’t ride to the rescue fast enough because billionaire donors could soon be cutting off the money to elite schools over their slide into overt anti-Semitism. Like Robert Kraft, the owner of the NFL’s New England Patriots who just did exactly that when he announced he was closing his checkbook to Columbia.
The failed GOP presidential candidate never made it to the White House, gagging away a winnable election against Barack Obama in 2012 but Harvard would be a nice consolation prize over a decade later.
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Author: Chris Donaldson
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