Remember the move from the 90's about a conservative high school kid visits a potential college and gets set up with some folks that mock all of the liberal establishment. The liberal groups, manipulated by the Administration, try to force the "flunkies" out of the school. The administration is playing sides against each other. The movie ends with the "flunkies" getting all the liberal groups to agree to not protest. They actually have a protest that they are not going to protest. Then they charge admission to a keg party to raise money to keep their house.

Point being that movie is a really simplified version of what is happening now.

Link to movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCU_(film)