J.D. Vance, in a 2021 conference speech: “So much of what we want to do in this movement and this country, I think, are fundamentally dependent on going through a set of very hostile institutions, specifically the universities, which control the knowledge in our society, which control what we call truth and what we call falsity, that provides research that gives credibility to some of the most ridiculous ideas that exist in our country.”

Read more from Inside Higher Education.

YouTube video of 2021 speech here.

More from a May 2024 interview on Face the Nation. (More of the same, but with pushback from the interviewer, Margaret Brennan.