Universities regularly do not engage in political affiliation, so hiring somebody due to political affiliation is neg

Considering professional academics as among the most biased is a mistake. Part of the problem for why some people think this is simply a misunderstanding of epistemology and bias. Creationists accuse biologists of being biased towards evolution; this should be self-explanatory as to why creationists are the ones making the mistake and the bias. If it is not, I would love to expound since evolution is one of my favorite subjects

The majority of educated people in not just the country, but the world, are liberal or some other similar position. There is a very legitimate reason for this. Formal education is where we find some of the best gathering of knowledge on social sciences and epistemology. Political science is just as much a science as is biology, and it makes loads of sense that those who are educated in social sciences come to similar consensuses just like they do in all other sciences.

As for the US, conservatism has moved so far to the right that 'liberal' can easily mean center/right, and an analysis of political histories and social sciences very strongly suggests that the correct political position is substantially closer to US liberal than US conservative.