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How education’s decline is corroding a pillar of the left’s power

Beneath the weather of the daily headlines, slow tectonic shifts are changing America’s political landscape. 

Demographic developments are moving voters (and congressional seats, and electoral votes) from blue states to red ones. 

Trust in the traditional media — routinely in the tank for Democrats — has plummeted.

And the entire education industry, a key pillar of the leftist establishment, is now crumbling, too.

The long decline of higher education — the subject of my 2012 book “The Higher Education Bubble” — has been slowly accelerating for over a decade, driven by sky-high tuition and shrinking employment prospects for recent college grads. 

When Hampshire College in Massachusetts announced its plans to close last week, it became the latest private college to fall victim to the ruin. 

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Others include King’s College in New York, Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama and St. Andrews in North Carolina, among many more. 

More than a quarter of the nation’s private colleges is at risk of closure in the next decade, NPR reported last week.

Even some law schools have gone out of business.

As I predicted, small, expensive private schools that aren’t at the top of the prestige ladder are the first to go — though some, like Hampshire, are fairly........

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