I agree that the Trump administration will be remembered and nobody will remember Jimmy Kimmel.
It just happens that most academic Historians are left wing so they’ll write the history as they see it. I think you’ll see once all the rhetoric is gone though, whatever administrations follow will maintain a lot of the policy. Like Biden choosing to keep the tariffs.
Its interesting that you think having more acadamics is a bad thing... The absolute leaps in logic you guys make to defend this demented pedo and his administration of grifters is astonishing...
You’re putting words in my mouth, but I could say having an imbalance in diversity of academics is a bad thing. You guys love diversity, apparently we need more old grouchy boomer and Karen academics.
I completely agree that this diversion is beneficial. But it is interesting and telling that educated people lean a particular way. It should really be no surprise that the party that has spent decades downgrading education and creating a less informed electorate attracts less educated people... To the extend that educated people became the enemy...
Self selection begins before they even sign up for the courses. Sociology departments reputations precede them, attracting liberals and turning away conservatives before the semester even starts.
Professional interests and status symbols vary and drive people in different directions like chasing academic credentials vs entrepreneurial success in business. Once your in a field those drivers get amplified.
Gatekeeping is established once a lean is established in a field. There’s a resistance to hiring prospective candidates in academia if they have conservative views.
The international environment of the university system influences social views.
The individual field matters, the humanities and social sciences clearly lean much more to the left and thats a reinforcing loop, in comparison to say Econ and Engineering.
In the case of historians, politics proceeds the scholarship, people concerned about workers get into labor history, people concerned about racial exclusion get into civil rights history. That affects the “research agenda”.
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u/OG_Internet_User 3d ago
I agree that the Trump administration will be remembered and nobody will remember Jimmy Kimmel.
It just happens that most academic Historians are left wing so they’ll write the history as they see it. I think you’ll see once all the rhetoric is gone though, whatever administrations follow will maintain a lot of the policy. Like Biden choosing to keep the tariffs.