Trump is More Guilty of Moral Equivalence Than Harvard Students

Conservatives are certainly justified in shaking their heads at Harvard University students who said they feel more threatened by the rhetoric of President Trump than by ISIS. In a video released by The Leadership Institute, several Harvard students view President Trump as a more immediate threat than ISIS. One student said, "Terrorism isn't that big a deal" while another said "we're very far away from ISIS". In fact, these Harvard students stood less than five miles from the finish line of the Boston Marathon where two bombs were detonated killing three people four years ago this month. William F. Buckley is famous for saying he'd "rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University." The same could be said of its student body.

While these Harvard students deserve derision, conservatives shouldn't be so smug when a majority have embraced Donald Trump with the sort of reverence once reserved for Ronald Reagan. For all the moral equivalence abundant in the People's Republic of Cambridge, the Harvard student body has nothing on President Trump has no peer when it comes to moral equivalence. When MSNBC's Joe Scarborough questioned Trump in December 2015 about Russian President Putin's killing of journalists, Trump replied, "Well, our country does a lot of killing too." When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan crushed an attempted coup last July, it was Trump who said, "I don't think we have a right to lecture" where it concerned human rights abuses. Less than a month after taking office, President Trump tweeted the mainstream media was "the enemy of the American people." If Trump genuinely believes the MSM is the enemy of the American people then what does that make ISIS?