In Education and Science, Trump is “Making America Last” and China First

When Hitler came to power, his Anti Semitic policies and denunciation of physics, calling it “Jewish Science” caused a seismic shift in education and science global leadership.

With Nazi and, to a lesser extent, Fascist Italy dictatorial and racist policies, scientists like Albert Einstein, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi fled the countries of their birth and emigrated to Britain and the United States where they helped lay the foundations of nuclear theory and the creation of the atomic bomb, for the allies in World War Two.

This is why people should learn from history as society fast forwards 90 years later and one sees Donald Trump and his Project 2025 agenda cutting funding for Universities, including research programs for science linked areas and deporting people who are vital to cancer treatment.

With University’s and staff wondering what will become, through court actions in many cases, of their positions and cherished benefiting humanity projects, one nation, according to Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey in her appearance on Morning Joe, is waiting in the wings to scoop up what Trump is stupidly tossing away.

China, the nation Trump views as adversary number one after illusionary hordes of illegal immigrants, is actively recruiting discarded American scientists to come and research for them with attractive allowances.

As Governor Healey said on Morning Joe this morning, Trump is “Making America Last” while elevating China with his fiscal, tariff, and culture war Project 2025 policies.

History shows what happened to the intellectual cultures of authoritarian and totalitarian nations like Germany and Italy when their strongmen came to power.

This is another reason why people need to push back against these ill advised MAGA-Project 2025 policy prescriptions and elect people that are not science deniers and will put American research infrastructure a high priority.