Conservatives are back in the Ivy League. Yale College Republicans is making a revival after being defunct for six years. While leftist students make noise on the surface, the tides beneath may be shifting to the right.

In 2016, Donald Trump’s nomination divided Yale College Republicans into two factions. The students who supported him kept the organization’s name, while those who didn’t called themselves Yale New Republicans. Divided, they were weak. In 2018, both organizations died off.

This past January, a small group of students vowed to disrupt Yale College Democrats’ unchallenged grip on campaign politics.

“There was a void politically for conservative thought,” Yale College Republicans President Manuneethy Anpalagan tells me in an interview. YCR allows students to “take a stance — without the fear of going too far.”

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