U.S. Senator and Harvard graduate John Fetterman (D-PA) criticized his alma mater after the university’s president resigned earlier this week.
Former Harvard President Claudine Gay stepped down from her position on Tuesday following an extensive plagiarism scandal and her widely criticized testimony before Congress on anti-Semitism. Fetterman told Semafor reporter David Weigel on Friday that he doesn’t “recognize” the university he graduated from in 1999.
“As an alum of Harvard — look, I graduated 25 years ago, and of course it was always a little pinko. But now, I don’t recognize it,” the Democrat said.
A survey of Harvard’s 2022 graduating class found that more than one in four seniors held “very progressive” political views and 40% said they were “progressive,” while only 4% of the graduates said they had “conservative” views and 2.4% identified as…
