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Allan Levine is a historian and author whose most recent book is Details are Unprintable: Wayne Lonergan and the Sensational Café Society Murder
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During the recent U.S. election campaign, soon-to-be former president Donald Trump found it highly amusing – in his usual twisted way – to disparage his Democratic opponent, soon-to-be-president Joe Biden, for “hiding” himself in the basement of his Delaware home. That Mr. Biden took precautions because of the COVID-19 pandemic – and he did regularly leave his residence to participate in many physically distanced events – was beside the point; Mr. Trump got a big laugh from his supporters with the line, so he kept it in his duplicitous routine at his rallies long after it had become stale.
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A campaign sign for U.S. president Donald Trump lies beneath water in the Capitol Reflecting Pool, on Capitol Hill on Jan. 9, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
A once-rapid flow of statements from higher education leaders has slowed in the days since President Trump’s followers rioted in the U.S. Capitol last week.
The statements started with college presidents sharing short bursts of horror on Twitter when the violent crowd overran the seat of American democracy. As the National Guard arrived and the building was cleared, more and more statements went out by email or appeared on university websites. Higher ed’s lobbying associations joined in the chorus. By this week, the communiqués had grown longer and sometimes came from large groups of the kind that take time to mobilize, like the American Political Science Association or a set of 157 law school deans.
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