Given that evangelical is synonymous with believing something that is demonstrably false, I don&#x27;t see why we should be clamoring to include such people among those that will shape the way future generations think. Just because US Republicans are underrepresented or discriminated against does not mean that universities are not doing a good job of maintaining a diverse faculty. It could be argued (and has, many times over) that the spectrum between the Marxist and American Democratic parties is much more representative of the rest of the world&#x27;s liberal-to-conservative spectrum than would be the US definition of liberal and conservative. Additionally, I would expect libertarians to be much better represented among faculty since their ideology is, at least, logically consistent and doesn&#x27;t contain the hate&#x2F;discrimination endemic to the Republican platform.<p>I think Republicans need to face the fact that they just nominated someone who&#x27;s entire platform lacks even basic critical thought. Even if you put aside how odious and xenophobic what Trump has proposed, it&#x27;s basically impossible to implement any of it anyways and anyone with an ounce of critical reasoning skills would easily realize that. And the one area where colleges cannot compromise on the faculty is in the area of critical reasoning skills. More than anything else, the purpose of a college education is to learn critical reasoning skills.