[cmrdporcupine]

Same reason they cut funding for universities that had DEI mandates, etc. and made a big spectacle of doing it despite it often being very little money etc. etc.

It's an ideological war, they're desperate to win it, and they're aiming to put a segment of US civil society into submission, and setting an example for everyone else.

He smelled weakness, and like any schoolyard bully personality, he couldn't help but turn it into a display of power.