Public enemy?

This is the start of "Colleges scramble to shield amid growing hostility from GOP," a long article in today's Washington Post that brings together many of the threats we've been hearing over the last months. Not just months... There have been rumblings for years as right-wing media eroded trust in the public good of higher education, GOP-led state legislatures assailed their public universities, and a House committee sought the scalps of Ivy League presidents. What the coming years will bring is uncertain for now - we find ourselves in the strange haze of this political interregnum where all sorts of policy possibilities are floated but none can be enacted yet. But the vultures are circling overhead. I remain confused. Whose enemy is education?