One only need to look at any Bernie Sanders rally ; to see how utterly clueless , or in a state of willing suspension of disbelief . This is the fruit of allowing Leftists penetrate and dominate our academia , for decades . What do we expect ? This is the result of some crazy toleration of the intolerable here in America . We are hanging ourselves with our own petard
Teaching and newspapering were the first two professions Feliks Dzherzhinsky and his NKVD maggots went after, when he was surging his thugs into America (and someone Big called off the Palmer raids, to protect them: Who? Inquiring minds want to know).
Fabian Socialists are just as slugly and vile, overspreading America with their slime; and they, too, went after the same people the NKVD did in some cases; they certainly went after academe.
It wasn't for nothing that Columbia got its nickname in the 30's as "the Little Red Schoolhouse".
But the key to socialist success is always cabal and conspiracy, pushing out people who don't share the Vision, unfairly sidetracking, demoting, deprecating, and driving out employees and colleagues who are not members of the cabal.