After being away from Universities for a while I went back in the 1990s for grad school. There was an absolute explosion in political correctness and wokeness. It felt like I had landed on another planet. This was the demoralization phase.
Sen. Ted Cruz once commented about the law school of a prestigious university he attended:
“There were more self-declared communists [in the faculty] than there were Republicans. … If you asked [them] to vote on whether this nation should become a socialist nation, 80 percent of the faculty would vote yes and 10 percent would think that was too conservative.”