Four in Ten Professors Admit They Would Discriminate Against a Trump-Supporting Job Candidate.

Universities have spent years telling America that diversity is an institutional necessity.

Apparently, that stops at politics.

A new report from the America First Policy Institute cites a survey finding that 40 percent of American academics would discriminate against a known Trump supporter in a hypothetical hiring decision.

To be clear, the data isn’t new. The survey was conducted in 2020 and published in 2021. It also focused on faculty at leading universities, particularly in the social sciences and humanities.

That caveat matters. But it hardly makes the finding irrelevant. Nothing suggests campuses have become more tolerant of conservatives since Trump won a second term.

The new report estimates that liberal faculty increased from 59.8 percent in 2016 to 74.2 percent in 2022. Conservative faculty fell from 12.1 percent to 10.8 percent.

Meanwhile, more than 77 million Americans voted for Trump in 2024. Supporting him isn’t some obscure belief found in the darkest corners of the internet. It’s a political choice shared by roughly half the country.

Liberals frequently insist that workplaces should reflect the communities they serve. That principle apparently doesn’t extend to political ideology.

On many campuses, supporting the candidate who won the presidential election may still be enough to cost someone a job—or prevent them from getting one in the first place.

Universities demand diversity of race, sex and sexual orientation.

Diversity of thought is where their demand for diversity ends.