Some Harvard students, faculty, and alumni wanted her gone, too. Gay truly bungled her Congressional testimony when Representative Elise Stefanik asked her how she would handle a call for the genocide of Jews. The gates of Harvard University in Cambridge. When I saw that those two were involved, I said, “Uh-oh, this is going to be bad.” He is the person who started the attack on what he called critical race theory a few years ago. I was already familiar with him when he came into the news about the attacks on President Gay at Harvard. The more skilled operative is Christopher Rufo. These are very, very committed actors on the political right. Two of them were Chris Rufo and Phillip Magness. Some of the activists had nothing to do with Harvard. I thought, ‘Oh, no, this is going to be ugly.’ The entire right wing media and political ecosystem lighting up using the same language and terminology, whipping up outrage, that outrage breaking into the mainstream media, and seeing political provocateurs boasting about what they had done. I could just see that it had all the hallmarks of a political hit job, of a kind that I was very familiar with, having studied the right for a number of years. What was going through my stomach was almost as important as what was going through my mind. When you saw the campaign forming against Claudine Gay at Harvard, what went through your mind?
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