You may be right. I don’t follow the department that closely, but glancing through the current faculty and fellows, it seems to me that CMC still has a strong conservative/Straussian leaning at least among those concerned with political philosophy and American government. I’m not referring to how they might vote, but rather their academic interests and approach.
It might be a positive for a potential student who isn’t interested in taking a class on Plato’s Republic where the professor drops the “n-word” just because he can.