Lots more great info on the far right's war on education vis a vis Claudine Gay in this Media Matters report:
The right wing is continually on the lookout to weaponize the higher ethical standards of the center-left to attack modernity itself.
As Americans continue to leave religion in droves, reactionaries have decided to weaponize govt for fundamentalism: https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2021/05/liz-cheney-epistemic-collapse-conservatism/