Comment by Windchaser

Eh, I think there's a bit of a logical jump between "professors hate Trump" and "professors are expounding left-wing ideologies".

Yes, most professors are opposed to Trump. But when you're talking to a professor of, say, metallurgy, he's not using his classroom to rant against Trump. He's using his classroom to teach students about metallurgy, which is a pretty dang useful service to a modern industrial economy. Professor's personal political views aren't interfering with the economic and scientific value he's providing to the country.

Which is why the universities and research centers have largely been untouched until now. Until Trump, both sides could recognize that even if there was political disagreement between the professors and the politicians, the professors were still doing important work.

Trump took it personally, and on that personal basis he's now eroding our scientific and technological future. We're eating our seed corn, here.