The racist GOP VP candidate declares patriotic American professors "the enemy"

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5. For context:

‘The Professors Are the Enemy’
Right-wing attacks on academic freedom have real repercussions.
THE REVIEW

By Henry Reichman
DECEMBER 14, 2021

“The professors are the enemy.” So said J.D. Vance, a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, quoting Richard Nixon at last month’s National Conservatism Conference. The irony of this statement, coming from someone who has boasted of his position as scholar in residence at Ohio State University, is indisputable. But it is important to ask why it is that Vance, and others of his political ilk, appear so viscerally hostile to higher ed. One piece of the explanation comes from another Republican, George W. Bush, who, speaking of a quite different enemy, famously declared, “They hate our freedoms.”

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