It’s no secret that Marxists use academia as their retreat. Every couple of decades they wander out, get elected, destroy a bunch of stuff, then retreat back to their taxpayer-funded cynosures when the going gets tough and the adults must move in to clean up their mess. This is the tedious pattern after every Occupy protest, every riot, every election of every Bill de Blasio: the Marxists break it and then more mature (generally Republican) leaders have to clean it up. But we don’t clean up entirely, and that has been our main failing. A long time ago — a
