Harvard expels a Congressional enabler of the January 6 riots

The recent stories about the consequences that are starting to rain upon the January 6 anti-government rioters have drowned out ("swamped" might be appropriate) a story from Cambridge about a consequence that befell one of the insurrectionists' enablers. On January 12, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government removed Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) from the senior advisory committee of the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics. Douglas W. Elmendorf, the dean of the school, used polite academic language to call her a liar: "Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November's presidential election that have no basis in evidence, and she has made public statements about court actions related to the election that are incorrect," which Dean Elmendorf said "do not reflect policy disagreements but bear on the foundations of the electoral process through which this country's leaders are chosen." In response, Rep. Stefanik tweeted that Harvard had decided to "cower and cave to the woke Left," not the intellectual response that Harvard College had trained her for when it issued her a degree in 2006.