I'm pessimistic as usual. Those under attack won't be able to mount a successful 'counterattack,' and the consequences will leak through the whole economy.
But some might, and if a resistance did get going it could be of great importance. We have a strong union member (IEA) in our anti-war group, and we're turning a lot of our attention to the attack on teachers. We will see.
Carrol
P.S. I read Newman's Idea of the University in 1957 or so & I may have an incorrect memory of this. Early in the book he notes of the 18th-c British University that it was intellectually, morally, socially, spiritually corrupt --
BUT: (and I'm vague here as how he expressed: this is my paraphrase) iit turned out several generations of men who built the English Empire, did this, did that.
It did so merely by collecting a bunch of young men together for a few years, though it offered nothing else, that collecting was enough. That 'rhymes' as it were with Riesman's hypothesis.