hope.
But this aircraft carrier of institutional bigotry is not going to turn on a dime. The bigots in academia are NOT suddenly going to lose their jobs and they WILL hire fellow bigots–who will stay there 30 years or more.
So yes, change is possible. But it will be incremental and FAR slower than we’d like. Conservatives, as a group, have long since left academia, and it will take a good deal of time to get them back.