[wpietri]

It's not clear to me why this is getting downvoted. This strikes me as a pretty clear description. At this point major Republican figures are getting censured and demoted for saying that lies aren't true. Look at surveys of belief around the election. (Or previously, Republican beliefs on whether Obama is an American citizen.)

If universities are about anything at all, it's about pursuit of truth. At different points in time and space, different political sides have been the one more eager to ban inconvenient truths. Lysenkoism comes to mind, for example, or the Great Leap Forward. But here and now, it's Republicans who have as a group more or less abandoned factual inquiry altogether. And you don't have to believe me on this. You can read prominent dynastic Republican Liz Cheney: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/11/liz-cheney-vows-to-keep-figh...