CNN’s Evan Perez attempted to dismiss President Trump’s accurate description of Harvard as a “cesspool of leftist thinking” by pointing to a handful of conservative alumni, including Ted Cruz, Neil Gorsuch, and Tom Cotton. But this weak rebuttal crumbles under scrutiny.
Perez, echoing the typical liberal media playbook, ignored the overwhelming ideological imbalance at Harvard, where 76% of faculty identify as “liberal” or “very liberal” compared to a mere 3% who admit to being conservative.
Perez’s argument was embarrassingly shallow. “Now, one of the things that I think is lost upon this is that there’s plenty of conservatives that have come from Harvard: Tom Cotton, Neil Gorsuch, Ted Cruz, you know, over the years, Harvard has produced a lot of conservatives. So, the idea that Harvard is some cesspool of leftist thinking, I think is not quite what the, you know, certainly what the president believes is not quite what we know is true,” he claimed. Wolf Blitzer, ever the obedient CNN anchor, praised the non-point, gushing, “Excellent point. Thank you very much, Evan, for that.”
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But the facts tell a different story. Harvard’s student body is just as skewed—only 13% of the class of 2024 identified as conservative, while 59% called themselves progressive. This isn’t about a few token conservatives who survived the indoctrination mill; it’s about systemic leftist dominance.
The same media that would never accept the argument that Fox News is balanced just because it employs a Democrat like Jessica Tarlov suddenly pretends Harvard is politically diverse because Ted Cruz once walked its halls.
President Trump is right to challenge Harvard’s radicalism. The administration’s push to hold the university accountable—whether by scrutinizing its tax-exempt status or demanding transparency on anti-Semitic activism—is long overdue. The liberal media’s knee-jerk defense of these institutions proves their complicity in covering up the rot.