Which creates the artificial elevation of their “worldview” in serious academic subjects, so commentators can bloviate when they get too divorced from reality to succeed even despite this deference.

Spoiler: he was not a good teacher. Used class to sell his books which were then not used, put most of work on TAs, taught wrong things, slipped in religious stuff and in one class as a christmas gift, brought in his kids to sing choir.

I think you are focusing on fields with strong conceptual and historical alignments between scholarship and political stance. Also, individuals differ in their ability to acknowledge and adjust for their own positions. In fact, the best scholars always do.