THE BIG, BEAUTIFUL Bill’s narrow passage in Congress and the “No Kings” protests in which millions of Americans took to the streets to defy a 250-year military parade sheds light on just how polarising the current presidential administration is in the United States.

With Harvard University at the forefront, administrators and students are taking a stance against President Trump’s hard-line policies, most notably the elimination of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) programmes.

This, however, is just one of many policies driving a wedge between Americans.

As an undergraduate student at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, I can speak to the diverse feelings the present administration has sparked on campus. While the media’s spotlight on Harvard’s legal pushback and Palestine protests across college campuses might portray the majority of college-aged Americans as left-leaning, polls from the 2024 election reveal that 47% of young voters aged 18 to 29, voted for the current president.

This is a notable increase from the 37% of young voters who supported Trump in the 2016 election. Little by little, a right wave has been taking hold of the youth. But how evident is this on a Catholic liberal arts college campus?

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This past semester, the College of the Holy Cross was proud to host one of its best-known alumni – Dr Anthony Fauci of the Class of 1968 – for a residency, where he headlined a series of events intended to encourage dialogue among students.

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At one session, his fellow panellist surmised that many of the students in attendance were left-leaning and inquired whether their beliefs represent the majority of the student body. I responded to him as candidly as I could, stating that while there are a number of outspoken students and professors, plenty of whom express left-leaning........

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