As if no one would notice, The Washington Post this week headlined:  

Colleges weigh whether to sign onto Trump plan or forgo federal benefits

A new proposal from the Trump administration would give colleges funding advantages if they adopt conservative priorities.

You can almost sense the foaming anger as The Post reported the following: 

The Trump administration this week offered a select group of universities the opportunity to score priority access for federal funding, prompting an enthusiastic and swift response from a university leader in Texas, who called it “an honor.” 

But the other schools that received the 10-page proposal Wednesday night were largely silent Thursday, as they considered the wide-ranging conservative terms that some experts warned would trample on free-speech rights and threaten finances and academic freedom at top universities.

The Washington Post first reported this week that the White House intended to launch a campaign to bring colleges into compliance with Trump’s ideological priorities by offering a competitive advantage to those that sign on.

You can almost hear the whining and moaning that filled the newsroom once hailed for its Nixon-blasting investigative reporters Woodward and Bernstein.

This time around? The Post describes the goal of "institutional neutrality" as a "conservative priority." Just as it can't abide objectivity in the press.

To understand just how much of a threat genuine ideological diversity -- not to mention racial diversity -- on college campuses threatens the Left, the story reports this, capital letters supplied by the Post: 

“California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) threatened Thursday to yank billions of dollars’ worth of funding from any school in the state that signed onto the agreement, writing on social media that the state would not “BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.”

Which is to say, federal funding of ideological diversity on California campuses is a strict no-no. And Newsom (he with an eye of the next Democrat presidential nomination, for which he needs support from the party’s far-Left) will do everything he can to prevent it.

Included in the story is one startling aspect that, for those who know American history - and apparently that does not include The Post these days --  is shocking. It reads thusly, bold print for emphasis supplied.

“The (Trump) compact asks schools to pledge allegiance to conservative values and policies in eight enumerated areas, including by promising to:

*Prohibit consideration of factors such as gender, race or political views from being considered for admissions, scholarships or programming.”

Hello? Today’s Leftists - and The Post?- oppose the Trump “conservative values” view that colleges should not be allowed to take into admission qualifications like the “consideration of factors such as gender, race”?

Take a minute and hop in the history time capsule, and travel back to June 11, 1963. Famously, Democrat and decidedly segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace literally stood in the entrance to the University of Alabama (the “school house door” as it was then termed in the media of the day) to oppose the admission of black students to the then all-white state university. 

Which is to say, Wallace was demanding exactly what The Washington Post apparently now thinks is a good thing in college admissions - taking into “consideration of factors such as gender, race…” They can't imagine having empathy for a deserving white or Asian student not gaining admission to top colleges based on skin color.

To say the least, the world has spun around countless times since the day in 1963 when the liberals of the period staunchly opposed Governor Wallace’s refusal to admit black students to the University of Alabama because of race. Or this reflexive policy of obsessing over race pretends Wallace's stance never lost, that what David Horowitz called "progressive racism" should never end.

Today, standing up to oppose admitting college students because of race and admitting them on a color-blind merit is seen as wacky Trumpism. And no self-respecting leftist-run college will ever go along with that.

Maybe reading history would help?