I don’t know if this counts as activism, but I was at my university’s Faculty Club and a faculty member walked over and immediately started bitching about Donald Trump without introducing themselves. Like, you’re supposed to be in the business of developing people. What a gigantic waste of time and money.

What about that counts as far left activism?

Nearly every Republican who was in Congress in 2014 would have described at least 3/4 of what Trump has done this term as illegal and totally unacceptable, and would have described at least half of the rest as incompetent.

Unless you can make a case that since 2014 the country has moved so far to the right that even 2014 Republicans are now "far left", about the only thing you can infer from someone bitching about Trump is that they are probably not far right. (Even that one is pretty iffy because he's pissed off a lot of the far right now too).

If they were instead lauding Trump would you also see that as a waste of time and money? If they aren’t doing this in the classroom I don’t see the issue.

> I don’t know if this counts as activism,

I do. It doesn't.

> bitching about Donald Trump

This is just basic table stakes socialization and bonding for any red blooded American these days. Would you have similarly condemned them for commiserating about September 11 or Oklahoma City?

> I don’t know if this counts as activism …

then you proceed to describe something that in no world would be considered activism.