Another lesson in the value of trying to make nice with MAGA culture warriors

Remember when Columbia president Minouche Shafik went to Congress to desperately kiss Elise Stefanik’s ass and then kicked a bunch of students out of school (and their dorms) for expressing views that Stefanik disagreed with? The result was her not making it to the next academic year:

Columbia University’s president, Nemat Shafik, resigned on Wednesday after months of far-reaching fury over her handling of pro-Palestinian demonstrations and questions over her management of a bitterly divided campus.

She was the third leader of an Ivy League university to resign in about eight months following maligned appearances before Congress about antisemitism on their campuses.

Dr. Shafik, an economist who spent much of her career in London, said in a letter to the Columbia community that while she felt the campus had made progress in some important areas, it had also been a period of turmoil “where it has been difficult to overcome divergent views across our community.”

But surely she at least earned the support and respect of the congresswoman whose bidding she so cravenly did?

But Representative Elise Stefanik, a Republican of New York who led some of the most intense rounds of questioning during the congressional hearings, celebrated Dr. Shafik’s resignation and in a statement, credited the Congressional committee for pushing it to happen. “Three down, so many to go,” she said.

Peace in our time!