I didn't miss the point, I rejected it.
Philosophers have their market, and people buy their product.
I don't let "the people" off the hook.
Well, read the book then. The thesis is that philosophy is what truly moves the world. It determines the choices that individuals make. If the philosophy they are taught is anti-American, then so will their choices be. His point in the Ominous Parallels is that the same ideas that led to Nazism in Germany are being taught and accepted in America today by philosophers.