The Deep State Is Real

Taibbi:  Yes, Virginia, There Is A Deep State.

My own observations: there is absolutely an academic deep state. Academia is run by the intellectual left, and, hence, it is always moving leftward, toward whichever flavor of the left the intellectual left favors at the time. This is almost impossible to stop. If leftward movement is endorsed by the administration, academia rockets leftward. If rightward movement is endorsed by the administration, academia drags its feet, objects, dissembles, redefines...and moves leftward anyway. Just more slowly. If you could get them to move rightward, it wouldn't be far. And they'd just move left again as soon as they could.