UVA law student launches Trump-themed campus campaign

A University of Virginia (UVA) law student running for student government has adopted a Donald Trump theme for his campaign, fully appropriating the GOP frontrunner's signature style for the campus environment. Wearing a red hat that reads "Make UVA Great Again," second-year law student Erich Reimer says he'll build a wall protecting UVA's law school from the riffraff on other parts of campus.

"Let's be honest, when Main Grounds sends its people, they aren't sending their best and brightest," said Reimer, recalling Trump's campaign announcement speech. "They come here and take our free coffee at MyLab and hog group study tables. And some, I assume, are good people."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.