I have no doubt that discrimination took place against him because of his conservative views. My sense is that was the reason tenure has always been argued for in academic circles. Now, it’s extraordinary that he had to fight to prove his bonafides, and that the security of tenure was what was being withheld from him because the establishment did not want him to have the security of tenure and did want to censure his views. I’m glad he overcame. However, I’m also glad that he now has the security of tenure which originally was designed to protect those who had unpopular views.
I’m quite sure that if his retention of tenure becomes based on ‘evaluations’ from his administrators that he will soon be out on his ear. They will make the evaluations unfair.
You may be right. But at least now that he has national eyes on the situation, it will cost them.