I don't know about in the US, but that's not the case here. Generally the trends that the appointments are following here are not political so much as "business

I don't know about in the US, but that's not the case here. Generally the trends that the appointments are following here are not political so much as "business", and I use the term loosely (thus the quotes) - it's not generally things that are all that popular in businesses but more "business bureaucracy". So we wind up with a Deputy Vice Chancellor for the Leveraging of Core Competences (I exaggerate, but only slightly). Your comment may be true specifically in a few places but frankly it sounds like cartoonish "torn from the headlines" right-wing sour grapes more than an accurate depiction of what's going on in academia.