All politicians have bad ideas. Former President Donald Trump‘s bad ideas take on a particular character — they lack a conservative disposition in key respects. His proposal for a federally funded, “anti-woke,” free university is rooted in all of these typical Trumpian errors: over-centralization, lack of prudence about the future, and a simplistic concept of both government finance and education.

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