University President: Higher Ed ‘Brainwashing’ Leading to Trump Assassination Attempts
“Americans with the highest level of formal education were also the most supportive of political violence.”
This is true. If you think back to the days following the 2016 election, the Trump Derangement Syndrome on campus was off the charts. Not much has changed since then.
The College Fix reports:
University president links higher ed ‘brainwashing’ to Trump assassination attempt
Higher education “brainwashing” may be to blame for President Donald Trump’s latest assassination attempt and the emerging trend of the “educated assassin,” Cornerstone University President Gerson Moreno-Riaño recently said.
“A troubling trend that appears to be emerging is that of the ‘educated assassin,’ individuals who do not fit the typical profile of people who commit such heinous acts,” Moreno-Riaño said, according to Fox News.
“These individuals are often schooled in some of America’s most elite institutions and act out of a perverted philosophical conviction that sees the killing of others not as evil, but as justified,” he said.
Moreno-Riaño added that he has been concerned for many years that some of the most highly educated people in the country are not merely activists, but violent activists.
He suggested that this behavior could be a result of “brainwashing.”
“When education ceases to educate, when it’s ideological, when it’s brainwashing, when it’s indoctrination, it’s no longer education … It’s something very different,” he said.
The university president also criticized universities for their “crisis of morality.”
“The universities have rejected the centrality of God, a theistic Christian worldview, but nothing has taken its place,” he said.
He added that universities have “no moral compass” and are failing to give students “guidance and moral direction” as a result.
Moreno-Riaño’s concerns are echoed by a 2025 survey that gained widespread attention after the third assassination attempt on President Donald Trump’s life, The College Fix previously reported.
The American political perspectives survey found that “Americans with the highest level of formal education were also the most supportive of political violence.”
“[Thirty-six] percent of those with a graduate or professional degree agreed at least somewhat with the statement ‘If you are protesting something unjust, it is reasonable to damage property,’ while 40 percent agreed that ‘Violence is often necessary to create social change,’” the survey found.
Cole Allen, the man who charged the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with a gun last month, obtained a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in computer science from California State University, Dominguez Hills, according to Fox News.
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Something clearly has taken the place of the worn out Western theistic worldview.
It’s an uneasy amalgam of communism, Islam, emptiness and general malaise.
Welcome to the future. Ezra Pound was prescient.’
“For an old bitch gone in the teeth,
For a botched civilization.”
While he was talking about the cause – World War I – his prediction of the future and the underlying emptiness of it was uncannily accurate.
In what way is the Western theistic worldview “worn out”?