But they clearly have. Clearly. I have zero doubt that academia has been a targeted launching point for much of what has happened to the US in the past 70 years. Universities were targets of leftists in other places in the world. Young minds, impressionable. The ‘stature’ of most leftist politicians who have held power in the US over the past many decades has been predicated on having an Ivy, or similar background. It's really pathetic, and has led to group think, loss of creativity, and an overall diminution in the ability of the government to serve the people and to be effective.
RE “...I have zero doubt that academia has been a targeted launching point for much of what has happened to the US in the past 70 years...”
You are correct.
Like Goebbels said, when told parents were complaining about the Hitler Youth:
“Let them complain. We’ve already GOT their children.”
The Left are the REAL new Nazis. Or maybe not so much “new” as just the same old horsesh*t warmed up all over again.