Daily Beast - Many of fastest rising stars in the Republican Party, including Senators-elect Tom Cotton (Ark.), Ben Sasse (Neb.), Dan Sullivan (Ak.) and Rep.-elect Elise Stefanik, all graduated from Harvard. Along with Sens. Ted Cruz (Tex.), Pat Toomey (Penn.), David Vitter (La.) and Mike Crapo (Wyo.), the Republican Harvard contingent will outnumber Harvard Democrats in the U.S. Senate for the first time in recent memory.
Tom Cotton credits Harvard as the place where he “discovered political philosophy as a way of life.” Elise Stefanik, who will be the youngest woman ever to serve in Congress, was an editor and writer at the Harvard Crimson and served as the vice chair of Harvard’s Institute of Politics. Like Cotton and Stefanik, Sasse was a government major before going on to Oxford and Yale and becoming a college president himself.
Despite its reputation as “Kremlin on the Charles,” and the “People’s Republic of Cambridge,” current and former students at Harvard describe the campus as both overtly liberal in its politics and an ideal place for conservative thought to develop and thrive.
In fact, Harvard is not a liberal campus, something that most recently Barack Obama has well illustrated, as did the Vietnam War, which was propelled in no small part by Harvard advisors to Lyndon Johnson. - TPR
2 comments:
Love that Tom Cotton: "Harvard is where I divorced myself from people who work for a living."
Harvard is an interesting school. It's where the children of the owner class can play and flirt with ethics, as with the polloi, without their parents having to worry about them getting infected with either.
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