In the humanities, right leaning faculty can't survive long enough to get tenure. The left controls all the review panels.Fair, but its also the greatest bulwark protecting bad teachers. With other legal protections like wrongful termination I question the current benefits of tenure. Maybe the sentiment on the right will change to favoring tenure given today's cancel culture.
You can try being a conservative sociologist. Good luck getting published or keeping your post.
The fight will be more about what classes are required. Eg- do ethnic studies classes count towards core credits? Are all students required to take ethnic studies classes?
Requiring ethnic studies is one way to create guaranteed positions for ethnic studies professors. It also qualifies as ridiculous political indoctrination.