Yes, in 2021 JD Vance literally said
"[W]e have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country... The professors are the enemy."
And no, he wasn't joking. The video is chilling.
https://bryanalexander.org/politics/the-professors-are-the-enemy-j-d-vance-on-higher-education/
Yet JD used a bachelors degree from Ohio State (paid for by US Taxpayers under the GI Bill) and law degree from Yale to get to where he is today and serves under a president who also has an Ivy League degree.
The "anti-elitist" GOP are the most elite of them all. They want to pull the ladder up and eliminate critical thinking to keep everyone else down and keep control for themselves.