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I live near a university, and what I'm seeing among the faculty is that some of them, at least, look enough like Kulaks and traitors to Glorious Revolution that they're starting to get a little afraid.
Once it happens, it seems like they go one of two directions.
The first is they quadruple down on all the various shibboleths that show they're One Of The Good Ones - their Tesla sports a new "I bought it before Elon went nuts" bumper sticker. Their yard grows another "In this house we believe sign". The pride flag flaps in the wind year round. Each step gets more ostentatious and, to me, increasingly nervous.
The second is that they start doing more "right wing" things and integrate with those who they once called enemies when conversing with their former peers. They hit the range. They go to church. They visit the redneck bar and say "I don't know if I like Trump but this shit they're doing at my kid's school is getting out of hand." Like a prisoner hoping the Nazi biker gang will keep the Crips from raping him straight into the hospital, they observe just enough of the norms to keep them in the good graces of their new group.
Watching the dichotomy is interesting, and I can usually predict which way a given staff or faculty member is going to land.
The history of left wing revolutions vs right wing takeovers is instructive- left wingers tend to carry out brutal purges and go on witch hunts. Right wingers execute their known enemies, send everyone else prominent a set of shibboleths, and then tilt things their way ideologically.
One of these is much worse for professors themselves.
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