The article argues that the Trump administration is not merely ignoring educational and scientific progress but is actively dismantling it through various policy changes. This collective attack is portrayed as a deliberate strategy to consolidate political power by preventing meaningful engagement with crucial knowledge and history. With significant funding cuts to prestigious universities and attempts to control the dissemination of facts, these policies risk reducing citizens' understanding of the world and could lead America into a state akin to a 'new Dark Age.'
"The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science. If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans' ability to comprehend the world around us."
"By destroying knowledge, Trumpists seek to make the country more amenable to their political domination, and to prevent meaningful democratic checks on their behavior. Their victory, though, would do much more than that."
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