President Trump has mounted a sweeping campaign to impose his ideological worldview on some of the country’s most prestigious colleges, using the millions of dollars they receive from the federal government as leverage to force them to change.

Harvard University has drawn a line in the sand against the Trump administration and its sweeping demands for cultural change. Now it is counting on its peer institutions for backup. In Washington, Republicans say the nation’s wealthiest and oldest university has just made a serious error in judgment and is about to learn the cost of crossing Trump.