Important read!-----When Will Conservatives Understand That It’s Not a Contest of Ideas? – American Greatness

When Will Conservatives Understand That It’s Not a Contest of Ideas? – American Greatness
"...We have a defender in the White House, but the social ideas of the Left prevail in nearly every other elite and cultural space in the United States.
The election of November 2016, the elevation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the Mueller report debacle, the Iran turnaround, and other wins for conservatives may be satisfying, but they have not shaken the leftist lock on our institutions one bit.
The simmering stew of

• LGBT rights, 
• toxic masculinity, 
• white privilege, 
• disparate impact calculations, and 
• Millennial social justice campaigns 

has become dogma in corporate America, media, higher education, K-12 public schools (and many private schools, too), Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Broadway, the art world, museums, libraries .
...It’s not a contest of ideas, it’s a competition for jobs.
As leftists

• take over human resources offices, 
• reduce the number of conservatives on the faculty to less than 3 percent, 
• make appointments to political office contingent upon compliance with political correctness, and
• exile troublemakers and nonconformists such as James Woods and Charles Murray, 

the game as conservatives used to understand it is over.
Conservatives lost the war of positions long ago.
Woods is a great actor, but so what?
Murray is one of the great social scientists of our time, but no academic department would have him.
...For the Left, outcomes trump procedure just as politics eclipses intelligence, conscientiousness, and competence. 
One thing I saw in more than 30 years in academia was that while leftists on the faculty were not always the brightest bulbs in the room, they often managed to populate university and department committees where policies were created and passed. 
While we were teaching and researching; they were reshaping the institution.
...They were taking over.
Put it this way: We were clueless, they were canny.
Donald Trump understands this. 
That’s one reason the Left despises him
...If, after President Trump leaves office, they don’t start thinking more about personnel, if they don’t consider the population of institutions as much as they do the structure of institutions, if they choose a leader who thinks technocratically instead of ad hominem-ly, we will indeed end up with the permanent Democratic majority liberal intellectuals have predicted for the last 20 years."
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