Someone didn’t read their Bastiat in college.
When I was at a (big name) college many decades ago I was irritated with the nonsense spouted by the Economics professor.
I walked up to him and asked him if he had read Ludwig Von Mises.
He said “who is that”.
What is particularly amusing is that the professor’s ignorance was not just ideological—one of the most famous leftist Economists of the day (John Kenneth Galbraith) knew exactly who Von Mises was, joking he was a “gift to America from the Austrian Hungarian Empire”.
The lower level leftists were just kept in the dark.