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Comment Re:MAGA was successful (Score 1) 135

Anyone who doesn't agree with the current definition too hard and/or for too long won't be MAGA anymore

This is demonstrably wrong. Bannon and Tucker very publicly disagreed with Trump on Iran and are still core MAGA. That is, Trump had to concede to the base that held him accountable to anti-war electoral promise. There were credible threats of third-party runs and projected midterm losses for Trump (likely resulting in Democrat-led impeachment).

Comment Re:MAGA was successful (Score 1) 135

This might be your view from the outside. The reality is that MAGA, just like any other political movement, is a broad coalition of various special and broad interest groups that do not agree with each other on a number of topics. Broadly speaking, it is a coalition of socially conservatives, anti-war and trade isolationists, big business, neocon war hawks, etc. About the only thing everyone agrees is disdain for Woke, where everything else has pro and against coalitions.

Comment Re:MAGA was successful (Score 2) 135

The whole intent of the "fake news" agenda was to make people only listen to a single voice.

This is absolute bullshit. There is no "single voice" on the right and even MAGA does not agree on everything. Remember recent almost-war with Iran? Tucker and Bannon pulled us out of it. Remember Elon wanting more H-1B? Remember Ben Shapiro getting ostracized over asking for affirmative action for Jews and censorship of pro-Palestine voices? etc. etc.

Comment Re:"public" interest (Score 1) 76

Punching neo-nazis and fascists isn't communist, moron. It's the right thing to do, and a time honored American tradition.

Violence against your political opponents will only lead to more violence directed back at you, and there is no guarantee that you will win the fight you started. I would rather live in a peaceful democratic society where differences settles via debates and at the polls, but then "punch the nazi" morons like you are widespread.

Comment Re:At some point....they catch on... (Score 3, Interesting) 347

The Hyperpoliticization of Higher Ed

According to the most recently available HERI survey, liberal and far-left faculty members grew from 44.8 percent in 1998 to 59.8 percent in 2016-17. Liberal and far-left faculty no longer make up a plurality of American academics. They are now the clear majority.

Accompanying this shift, faculty and university administrators have increasingly prioritized overt political activism as a primary emphasis of classroom instruction. The changing ideological landscape has not only made nonleft constituencies feel increasingly unwelcome on campus-it has also started to materialize in hiring discrimination against faculty applicants with nonleft perspectives in several of the most politically skewed disciplines.

Comment Re:At some point....they catch on... (Score 1) 347

Define indoctrination.

In context of Universities, promoting your own political views in a one-sided manner that omits valid criticisms of said views while presenting opposing views in a biased way that only presents criticisms all while suppressing the opposite.

It should surprise absolutely no one that when 95% Left faculty and administration act politically, they are acting to advance Left's causes.

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