NYT kind of buries the lede here by only covering modern Rightoids, while alluding to the reality in the piece's title that this is actually systemic across all our institutions, which are overwhelmingly leftist. As long as the majority of people get a big fat middle finger from the rest of society, they will band together and end up ruling the place by virtue of being willing to get their hands dirty due to not caring what people think about them (they hated me before when I was good, so why not be bad?)