Harvard sweatshirts are displayed for sale in a school store window on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 15, 2025. My father and paternal grandparents, on the other hand, followed the Republican Party and Trump down the MAGA path and continue to support him. College acceptance season, like the holiday visits to my grandparents’ house, has become a time of tension, apprehension and fear. Creating fear seems to be the goal of the Trump administration. The actions of the Trump administration have made it clear that we are no longer safe to dream.
