Grab your popcorn, kids, it’s a good old fashioned Plagiarism War. In the end, it was the morally inverted rape parades that drove America’s more moderate billionaires to interrogate those age old questions “what the hell is going on at Harvard,” and “why the hell am I paying for this?” But today, as an entire class of former-fence sitters introspect, not only on the problems of the world but on the donor class’s role in causing these problems, no personal evolution has been more stark, or more public, than that of hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, who is presently waging war against the American institutions most hopelessly rotted by radical activist politics; no disrupted vector of radical power more starkly embodies the changing times than Claudine Gay, the former Harvard president who, it would seem from the press, Ackman just fired; and no piece of this saga, from inception to the vindictive institutional backlash now bearing down on Ackman’s wife, would be possible without the discourse vacuum inherent of Elon Musk’s free Twitter — a total collapse of the Overton window.
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