Republican Collegiates Have a Pep in Their Step
They aren’t going to be intimidated or silenced by the radicals on campus anymore.
For the past decade, leftist professors and their radicalized students have gone out of their way to bully and intimidate conservative peers. They saw the new conservative-leaning populism epitomized by President Donald Trump as a moral battle. For a while, the Left successfully demonized the MAGA movement. Supporters of conservatism were labeled as racist, bigoted, and sexist. Conservative students had to fight for their clubs and their ideas to even be heard on campus. Most college students would rather be silent on politics than invite the sort of trouble their radical cohorts would visit upon them.
But the radical leftists went too far, and something started changing over the past few months. College campuses are the front line of the pro-Hamas movement in America, and many students saw the outright antagonism against other students for being Jewish or pro-Israel. They saw their campuses vandalized and their classes — their very expensive classes — disrupted by the radical student activists.
Then, the conservative minority began standing up. At UNC-Chapel Hill, frat boys intervened when the raging leftist protestors tried to rip down the American flag and replace it with a Palestinian one. They held Old Glory off the ground and protected it.
Over the summer, Trump was nearly assassinated. His ear bloodied, the future president stood up and raised his fist, chanting, “Fight! Fight! Fight!” It was a rallying cry and a wake-up call. The Left had gone too far.
This school year, universities across the country are seeing record membership in Republican groups. Students have been emboldened to wear their red MAGA hats. According to an anecdote from The Wall Street Journal:
James Markis, a leader of the Boston College Republicans, celebrated Trump’s victory by wearing his red Make America Great Again hat. One student tried to hip-check him, and another insinuated that he was a Nazi, he said. But membership in the club surged and his MAGA hat drew more affirmation than anger. “I got a couple fist bumps and a lot of nods from people that I didn’t know,” he said. “I thought it was kind of fun.”
Another student told the Journal:
Campus MAGA began morphing from toxic to tolerable in spring 2024, said Cornell University’s Republican club president, Enzo De Oliveira. Inquiries into joining the club rose after a pro-Palestinian demonstration disrupted a career fair. “Students were just fed up, they wanted to be left alone,” he said.
Of course, leftist activist students and professors aren’t slowing down their hate campaign. On Tuesday at the University of Washington, trans activists and antifa members barricaded a Turning Point USA speaker in a room, pulled the fire alarm, made an obnoxious amount of noise so the speaker couldn’t be heard, and forced the campus police to escort the students who came to hear the talk out of the building for their own safety.
Alarming situation happening right now at the University of Washington.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 22, 2025
TPUSA speaker barricaded after being hunted by ANTIFA.@amcauce the President of UW is potentially in serious trouble with the Dept. of Education Civil Rights Division.
President Trump has said NO federal… https://t.co/JpQelqT1YM
This overt persecution is now working against these lunatics. They aren’t peaceful protesters; they’re violent disruptors who are intolerant of diversity of thought. Enough is enough.
Even high school students are no longer afraid to discuss their affiliation with the Republican Party. Many proudly list their volunteering with conservative nonprofits or door-knocking in support of Donald Trump. One college admissions advisor reports that this candid political and ideological stance seems to have helped these high schoolers receive early acceptance into Ivy League colleges.
Christopher Rim, CEO and founder of Command Education, a college admissions consulting firm, said this of students who wrote about their conservative political stance: “These are students who took risks and were true to themselves, and that’s what got them the acceptances. Their essays, I think, were just a breath of fresh air.”
Perhaps on some level, too, the Ivy Leagues will get some of their good reputation back. Maybe getting more conservative-minded students on campus will mean fewer riots and less vandalism in the future.
These are all wonderful signs that nature is healing and that the American people are done being bullied by the moral delusions of the Left. Perhaps Americans can actually learn to disagree without hating each other. What a refreshing stance that would be.
