Ara in English · Trump vs. Harvard, vulgar populismThat Donald Trump, contrary to popular belief, is an absolutely predictable character is something we've already said here (and that someone has repeated), and the actions of the US president only corroborate it. His brutal attack on American universities, and Harvard in particular, is nothing less than a populist eruption of a vulgarity that may seem unusual to us but has ancient and deep roots. It can be described, if you will, as culture war, because it's a label that pedants like, but in reality it stems from the old resentment against the elitism that culture, knowledge, and higher education represent for some sectors of society. You don't have to go to the United States: in our country, we have a population with alarming dropout rates, and this is fertile ground for suspicion of studies, students, books, etc.