MSNBC host Alex Wagner and her guest, New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg, assessed the chaotic situation on many American college campuses and worried that the mass protests, anti-Semitic chants, and violence could spark a new Reagan era.
Wagner and Goldberg were responding to the New York Police Department’s actions in clearing protesters from Hamilton Hall — which was seized and barricaded by anti-Israel protesters — and they drew a direct comparison to 1968, the last time “anti-war” protesters had taken over that same building.
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MSNBC’s Alex Wagner frets that the campus protests at Columbia and elsewhere might lead to the next Reagan Era pic.twitter.com/qdOUgL8b9P
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“Michelle, the — Hamilton Hall is — for people who are not familiar with the Columbia campus: in April of 1968, 56 years ago, hundreds of students seized the building during protests over the Vietnam…
