Once the heavily Democratic universities, and the nonprofit sector more broadly, began to drive the economy and the culture and to command the only remaining large pool of secure, high-paying jobs, the drift toward the new, minoritarian constitution gathered momentum, even when the Democrats were out of power. Isolated from the innovative, well-connected, and savvy populations of the top universities, Republicans, even when they were in an electoral majority, lost their ability to influence the system. It was only a matter of time before they lost their ability even to understand the logic of
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