He might say it's time to do it and add to the story of people cast out of the academies, but when it comes to actually issuing and carrying out threats his value is too dependent on being clean.

You said you needed a populist to get the ball rolling.

Like, he can endorse someone and then say "I don't necessarily agree with everything but this person has the right idea" but he can't be the one issuing demands himself.

@Atkins Yes. And not Trump. Trump is too busy courting controversy to actually do anything useful.

One thing I think would be interesting is seeing if Title IX could be used to split the funding of Women's studies.

You rally together a bunch of radical (probably left leaning) male students who play the social justice game and demand a men's studies department. Then argue Title IX requires all funds and resources allocated to helping women via the Womens studies progam must be matched.

This makes the women's studies program effectively 2x as expensive.

Useful right-wing populists who have ties to academia and a desire to tear the system down are pretty damned scarce.

And creates a natural counterweight to the feminists.

Useful right-wing populists...are pretty damned scarce

FTFY

Really, it needs to be grassroots.

The politicians come after the Unis are screaming for money and see there is energy.

How's it going to be grassroots if the place is 99% lefties

Grassroots among the general populace.

Obviously, Academia won't change on it's own.

Groups like GG need to step up their game.

We need more leaks.
More protests.
More baiting.

And the general population needs to be applying pressure.

The Blue-state U's and rich private institutions are pretty unapproachable. But you could force matters in a number of red states and with poor, dying privates.

Of which there are many.

Conservatives can't really even set foot on some campuses to start protests. Can't even have a speech in a rented hall.

Why do you think lefties chain themselves to trees?

They're shameless mental cases?

It works.

They get their message across. And they set it up so they look like the victims.

I'd just pepper spray them and leave them lol.

The victim and arrest part is the wohle goal.

Come back every few hours and re-apply pepper spray

You need to make enough noise and apply enough pressure to attract the press. Particularly the sympathatic press.

Press sympathetic to conservatives?

On Fox.

And there's some setups that just look bad or are hard to deny.

There's an op-ed I like that proposed the next time a right-wing speaker is shouted down, every libertarian, moderate or conservative student should then mob the next left-leaning speaker and chant "this is what you do to us" until they get removed by the police (and then be polite about leaving)

By making a clear demand and being voiceful it forces the issue and makes the demand clear.

Dude that's not going to play out the way you think.

Either the administration lets them have their speeches in peace or they'll keep being disruptive.

Every conservative student would be arrested and expelled.

No mercy.

That's when you go to court.

And you do it strategically.

You're not doing this in Berkely.

You do it at U Nebraska where the faculty are already on the defensive after that incident with the professor at the TPUSA table.

And the population is already right-leaning.