DeTocqueville also wants a word with you.
Or google "Madison factions tyranny."
Or did you forget that universities are built on the right to free discourse, and fail to thrive without it? Yeah, you forgot didn't you?
Somehow the entire raison d etre of a democracy has eluded you.
The universities of our states are public. By charter, they are owned and run by the state, forcibly funded by taxpayers, and, by various means, subject to the democratic process.
You can argue against the existence of public universities per se, but, absent such a case, you cannot have it both ways.
As things stand, public universities are accountable to the public and to its elected representatives and they will remain so even when that public chooses politicians of whom you happen to disapprove.
What is good for the goose is good for the gander, and, in Florida, the gander won the last gubernatorial election by 19 percentage points.