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Given that leftists have gained control of academia, are democrats fascists?

My claim of "leftists control academia" is based on data on political affiliation / donations by staff at major universities which is 80-90% democrats.

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Pretty massive difference between "the federal government is using its influence to try to compel academia into bending the knee to it and it's fascistic methods of operating" and "most academics aren't in favor of the party that still doesn't believe in vaccines, hates them or their colleagues for having the wrong skin color and doesn't see any value in the liberal arts".

Fascism is a top-down system of government. If it's true that "leftists" gained control of academia, I don't see that as something that happened via top-down control, which is clearly what the Trump administration is attempting to impose.

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