It is an article of faith among cultural conservatives that left-wing academics are brainwashing our children and leading them away from God, traditional moral values, and patriotism. As I’ve noted before, to the limited extent it is true, it is due to natural forms of self-selection. Academics tend to be liberal for the same reason that businessmen believe in tax cuts and deregulation.
Ron DeSantis wants to change this. He wants to tear wokeness out of our schools by the roots. As president, he would undoubtedly use the threat of the loss of federal funds as his principal weapon to accomplish this. The problem is that there simply aren’t enough reactionary academics and administrators to replace the woke ones on a national basis. DeSantis consequently would have the power to destroy our universities, but not to genuinely reform them.
The real question here is whether DeSantis would go so far as to deny federal aid to any student who wants to attend an institution he and his henchmen would consider woke, as opposed to directly assisting those institutions themselves. My best guess is that the answer is yes. I have seen no indication that he respects any limits in the woke wars. Just ask Disney.