Every single dreadful parasitic idea that is destroying the West stems from academia. It begins there but then these ideas escape the Ivory Tower and parasitize everything. @realDonaldTrump's victory on Tuesday is good news in that the majority of decent people reject this nonsense BUT the battle won't be won until all of these ideas are permanently eradicated along with the reflex for suicidal empathy. Hence, the current victory is great but step 1 of a very long process of de-lobotomizing all of academia and its offshoot intelligentsia.
The day after the election, I found myself struggling with how to approach the complex analysis class I was teaching. Could I ignore the (almost literal) elephant in the room? Would my students be in the right mental state to learn math? Would I be in the right mental state to teach it?