There was money – and lots of it – for organizations that were willing to take the culture war to America’s universities, creating an entire political economy https://crookedtimber.org/2023/03/06/conservatives-on-campus/ Many outside organizations encourage students on the right to plan events specifically designed to incite outrage among their left-leaning peers. Once outrage is successfully sparked, and progressive students demand that administrators do something in response, the front line of conservative politics shifts to protecting the speech rights of reactionaries and provocateurs.