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The Jussie Smollett claim of a racial and homophobic attack in late January in Chicago by two white men wearing MAGA hats is falling apart. The story was suspicious from the start. While not impossible, it was improbable that two white guys were running around Chicago in the middle of the night during a sub-zero Polar Vortex wearing MAGA hats while carrying bleach and a noose and just happened to find a high-profile gay black actor to attack.

Last fall, several prominent conservatives were driven from public spaces by left wing mobs. Now conservative talk radio host Michael Savage has practically gone into hiding over death threats which are currently being investigated by authorities. The threats were emailed to a restaurant Savage visits regularly.

Professor Samuel Abrams is a conservative-leaning tenured professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College. He is active in Heterodox Academy, a group of almost 2000 academics devoted to intellectual diversity on campus. Prof. Abrams recently wrote an op-ed for the New York Times about the lack of ideological diversity among administrators at his school and elsewhere. The column, titled Think Professors Are Liberal? Try School Administrators, brought together research Prof. Abrams had done on left-leaning bias among college professors and administrators, and how it stifles open debate.

Some of Trump's harshest critics have been people on the right who identify as "Never-Trump" conservatives. But his record on the economy, judicial appointments and foreign policy is starting to change the minds of some. And Trump's steadfast defense of Brett Kavanaugh sealed the deal.