The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/donald-trump/)
The Washington Post’s Supreme Court Correspondent Ann Marimow ’97, held a panel with University professors and leaders to discuss the second Trump administration on Wednesday.
You are shocked. You are shocked that your guardian of democracy, Vice President Kamala Harris, a commended former prosecutor, attorney general and Californian senator endorsed by Obama himself, has fallen to the whim of the electoral college and the general populace.
You are shocked that Donald J. Trump, the disgraced 45th President, the felon convicted on 34 counts of invoice fraud, the “fascist to the core,” has completed a decade-long political victory lap, painting the greater part of our great nation, and nearly every critical toss up, a brilliant red.
You are shocked — but I, on behalf of the many pundits and thinkers of prior — am not. For much of the last three months, it seemed redundant to vouch or even presume that the Veep was in for a layup against Trump’s third bid for the Oval Office. We appealed to Allan Lichtman’s 13 Keys, manifested that a “silent majority” might fail to prevail and assured ourselves that historically faulty polling would, by some miracle, shake out a Blue Victory. We were beyond mistaken.
Presidential victory speeches offer clear opportunities for agenda setting, words of hope and a display of gratitude to those who have helped a president-elect in their often bitter, tiring efforts. Recipients of shoutouts during such grandiose events are typically limited to family members, friends, top campaign officials, important political allies, key donors and voters. However, during the victory celebration at Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential election watch party, some other, more interesting names were mentioned. After the president-elect called Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White to the microphone, White took the opportunity to “thank the Nelk Boys, Adin Ross, Theo Von, Bussin’ With The Boys and last but not least, the mighty and powerful Joe Rogan.” Although the shoutout likely struck many Americans as completely bizarre, White’s words reflect the increased usage of online influencers (including podcasters, YouTubers and Twitch streamers) as avenues for political outreach.
A sentiment echoes across the United States, and it stems from “the people.” Just last week, “the people” elected a president. How can we understand this political moment better? Let’s go back to Plato and his cave. Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” from the Republic, helps us understand populism in the U.S. today and its role in Donald Trump’s rise.
The “Allegory of the Cave,” aims to understand the effect of education, or lack of it, on our nature. Plato describes his allegory as follows: There are humans living inside of a cave that extends far with an entrance leading to the outside world.
This election, the Democratic Party has been handed its most humiliating loss in recent memory. For the first time in 20 years, a Republican candidate won the popular vote. With the exception of a handful of representatives, such as Josh Riley, the Democratic performance in the Senate, gubernatorial and House races has been equally disappointing.
That’s why Cornell also has an obligation to take the larger circumstances behind a disruption into account, and to extend “tolerance,” too, to on-campus disruptions that are proportionate to the larger disruptive events in the world to which they respond. Content-neutral cannot mean content-free.
Speakers at an anti-fascism protest organized following Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election criticized both major parties’ Israel-Palestine stances and Cornell’s discipline of protesters.
Cornell Votes leaders estimated that they reached over 3,000 students throughout the fall semester through events encouraging students to engage in the voting process.
To those who voted for and supported Harris: you have lived under a Donald Trump presidency once, it will be okay a second time. You will survive a second term and may even be better off for it.
Hundreds of students waited upwards of an hour in a line snaking through Robert Purcell Community Center, Cornell’s sole polling place, underscoring a collective sense of urgency among young voters this Election Day. The Sun conducted exit polling outside RPCC to assess students’ leanings and priorities on Election Day.