The left-wing industrial complex that Democrats have created to build and perpetuate their power needs to be destroyed. Elon Musk has already fed USAID into the woodchipper. Now it's time to DOGE a bigger and more important cog in their machine of ideological and cultural dominance: our system of hi gher education. You hear Democrats all the time talk about much of K-12 education as a “school-to-prison pipeline,” which shovels poor, mostly non-white kids into lives of destitution. Their solution is to close down the prisons — not to teach people that crime isn’t the answer, not to inspire them to make something of their lives and most certainly not to reform the schools. And that last point is what makes it obvious that they don’t really mean it. They know they’re lying. If they were serious about the school-to-prison pipeline, they would embrace education reform instead of cowering before the intransigent teachers' union leaders who resist it. Yet Democrats never do this, then pretend to be surprised when the students they disserve struggle to gain college admission through merit. But it is in college that Democrats really sink their talons into the weak-minded. U.S. higher education is four years of indoctrination and exploitation, for the low price of tens of thousands of dollars in student loans at 5 percent interest. It’s not very often you can rip someone off this badly and get both the students themselves and the taxpayers to pay for it. Liberal colleges and universities take in billions every year in federal student loans and grants — both for tuition and research. They are as dependent on that money as any junkie on his drug of choice.  Johns Hopkins University recently announced it was laying off 2,000 employees around the world because corrupt USAID grants had dried up. "This is a difficult day for our entire community," the university said in a statement. "The termination of more than $800 million in USAID funding is now forcing us to wind down critical work here in Baltimore and internationally.” That “community” can’t be all the tightly knit, though. Johns Hopkins is sitting on an endowment of at least $13 billion. So maybe they do “love” those 2,000 people they’re firing, just not enough to dip into the giant pile of cash with which they have been feathering their bed while taxpayers cover their operating costs. The only circumstance in which universities will forego tax dollars, it seems, is when their incessant, anti-American left-wing political activism is challenged. Columbia University, ground zero for campus antisemitism, faces losing $400 million annually from the federal government for refusing to protect Jewish students and restore order to their campus. It seems they couldn’t care less. Katrina Armstrong, Columbia's interim president, released a statement proudly standing with the extremists who have been invading classrooms and intimidating Jews. Her statement read, in part, “As an institution committed to creating and advancing knowledge, we will never stray from open dialogue and free debate of ideas, even when it is difficult. We cannot let the challenges we face stop our work to make our institution stronger and better, including our efforts to combat hate and discrimination on campus. We must continually reaffirm our commitment to freedom of expression, due process, and the rights of all members of this community.” They keep using that word “community” — Armstrong even ended her statement by pledging to "decide how to do that together as a community.” So, welcome to the community ... well, unless you’re a Jew or not a fan of Hamas or something like that. Our colleges and universities are dying. We should let them. What they currently do no longer has any value. Let them fund their own operations by dipping into and draining those massive endowments. Only when they have been fully humbled and defunded can they be rebuilt and redeemed.  Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses. He is host of the weekly “Week in F------ Review” podcast, where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. ...read more read less