On Tuesday night, Chris Hayes found himself more closely resembling a conspiracy theorist than a journalist during his show, All In with Chris Hayes. Hayes, leaving out critical context around the federal decision to stop government funding from Harvard University, compared Trump to a communist Apparatchik, that is, someone who was blindly devoted to political ideologies– like a Soviet politician.
Of course, this rhetoric was only used to further highlight the presupposition that Trump was a dictator and autocrat, a view widely held by those on the left, like Hayes. The irony, however, is that if anyone is blinded from the truth by their own political ideologies, it was Hayes.
“The Trump administration is trying to put Harvard University, the nation’s oldest college, out of business,” he whined near the top of the show. Further bloviating…
