Below is my column in The Hill on the recent poll of university professors in this election. It speaks volumes about the composition of higher education today.Here is the column:The 2024 presidential election is shaping up to be the single most divisive election in our history. The public is split right down the middle with almost every group splintering between former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. There is, however, one group that seems almost unanimous: professors.
A new survey of more than 1,000 professors shows that seventy-eight percent will vote for Harris and only eight percent will vote for Trump. Other than a poll of the Democratic National Committee, there are few groups that are more reliably Democratic or liberal.
For anyone in higher education, the result is hardly surprising. The poll tracks what we already know about the gradual purging of departments around the country of conservative, libertarian, and dissenting professors.
Indeed, the lack of political and intellectual diversity may be turning some donors and even applicants from higher education. With failing revenue and applications, universities are starting to re-embrace commitments to neutrality on political issues.
Some, however, are doubling down on advocacy and orthodoxy.
In an op-ed this week, Wesleyan University President Michael Roth called on universities to reject “institutional neutrality” and officially support Kamala Harris. Calling neutrality “a retreat,” Roth compared Trump’s election to the rise of the Nazis and insisted that schools should “give up the popular pastime of criticizing the woke and call out instead the overt racism.”
He added, without a hint of self-awareness or irony, that “we should not be silenced because of fears of appearing partisan.”
In my book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I discuss the intolerance in higher education and surveys showing that many departments no longer have a single Republican as faculties replicate their own views and values.
So not only are professors voting en mass for Harris, Roth would have the schools themselves work openly for her election.
That ideological echo chamber is hardly an enticement for many who are facing rising high tuition costs with relatively little hope of being taught by faculty with opposing views.
There are obviously many reasons why faculty may reject Trump specifically, but this poll also tracks more generally the self-identification and contributions of faculty.
A Georgetown study recently found that only nine percent of law school professors identify as conservative at the top 50 law schools — almost identical to the percentage of Trump voters found in the new poll.
Notably, Roth acknowledged that the current lack of intellectual diversity in higher education had become so extreme that there might be a need for “an affirmative action program for conservatives.”
However, he and others continue to saw feverishly on the branch upon which we all sit in higher education in calling for even greater political advocacy.
There is little evidence that faculty members have any interest in changing this culture or creating greater diversity at schools. In places like North Carolina State University a study found that Democrats outnumbered Republicans 20 to 1.
Recently, I had a debate at Harvard Law School with Professor Randall Kennedy on whether Harvard protects free speech and intellectual diversity.
This year, Harvard found itself in a familiar spot on the annual ranking of Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE): dead last among 251 universities and colleges.
Harvard has long dismissed calls for greater free speech protections or intellectual diversity. It shows.
The Harvard Crimson has documented how the school’s departments have virtually eliminated Republicans. In one study of multiple departments last year, they found that more than 75 percent of the faculty self-identified as “liberal” or “very liberal.”
Only 5 percent identified as “conservative,” and only 0.4% as “very conservative.”
Consider that, according to Gallup, the U.S. population is roughly equally divided among conservatives (36%), moderates (35%), and liberals (26%).
So Harvard has three times the number of liberals as the nation at large and less than three percent identify as “conservative’ rather than 35% nationally.
Among law school faculty who have donated more than $200 to a political party, a breathtaking 91 percent of the Harvard faculty gave to democrats.
The student body shows the same bias of selection. Harvard Crimson previously found that only 7 percent of incoming students identified as conservative. For the vast majority of liberal faculty and students, Harvard amplifies rather than stifles their viewpoints.
This does not happen randomly. Indeed, if a business reduced the number of women or minorities to less than 5 percent, a court would likely find de facto discrimination.
Yet, Kennedy rejected the notion that the elite school should strive to “look more like America.”
It is not just that schools like Harvard “do not look like America,” it does not even look like liberal Massachusetts, which is almost 30 percent Republican.
Our students are being educated by faculty taken from the same liberal elite of just 26 percent of our nation.
Some sites like Above the Law have supported the exclusion of conservative faculty. Senior Editor Joe Patrice defended “predominantly liberal faculties” by arguing that hiring a conservative law professor is akin to allowing a believer in geocentrism to teach at a university.
The result is that law students at schools like Harvard have relatively few faculty to reflect the views of half of the judiciary and the majority of the Supreme Court.
Likewise, having a faculty that ranges from the left to the far left further marginalizes the small number of conservative students.
The impact of this academic echo chamber is evident in surveys showing that 28 percent of Harvard students engaged in self-censorship — a figure doubling since just 2021.
Given my respect for Professor Kennedy, I was surprised that he dismissed the sharp rise in students saying that they did not feel comfortable speaking in classes. Referring to them as “conservative snowflakes,” he insisted that they simply had to have the courage of their convictions.
This ignores that they depend upon professors for recommendations and their challenging the orthodoxy at the school can threaten their standing.
Moreover, Kennedy defended cancel campaigns or “disinvitations” of speakers as a form of free speech. As students see faculty supporting the cancelling of conservative or libertarian or dissenting speakers, it is hardly an invitation to speak freely yourself in class.
There was a hopeful aspect, however, to the debate. Before the debate the large audience voted heavily in favor of Harvard’s position. However, after the debate, they overwhelming voted against Harvard’s position on free speech.
It is an example of how exposure to opposing views can change the bias or assumptions in higher education.
There is little likelihood that Harvard or higher education will change. It is like the old joke about how many psychiatrists it takes to change a light bulb. The answer is just one but the bulb really has to want to change.
Academics like Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley law school, have denounced conservative justices as mere “partisan hacks.” Other faculty have joined in claims that Trump and his supporters are “fascists” out to destroy democracy. It is only likely to get worse after the election.
The political polling of professors reflects the near complete cleansing of colleges of conservative faculty. The question is whether donors or applicants will continue to support an echo chamber that has become ideologically deafening.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Turley constantly states that conservatives are being “purged” from college faculties. That is his position and his terminology.
However, he has never once, not ever, given a specific example of this happening. He simply makes the observation that college faculties are overwhelming liberal, and assumes that this is evidence and proof of some mysterious process of “purging”.
If this is true, who are these these faculty members who have been purged???
Where are they???
Why do they not speak out???
If nothing else, this blog is evidence that conservatives are not shy about complaining of discrimination, real or otherwise.
This “purging” is completely false narrative created by the far right.
There is absolutely no evidence that this is occuring or has ever occurred.
The purging has already taken place. After the very few remaining faculty members who adhere to free markets, the Constitution, and freedom and liberty have passed away, all such adherents will cease to exist, having been 100% replaced by anti-Civilization Marxists. This is the inherent nature of all Leftist Indoctrination Entities (aka “LIEs”). Why do you think LIEs such as Harvard and their ilk have failed to produce any Nobel Prize winners in more than 20 years in the hard sciences? Anti-Civilization Marxists can’t produce anything of value, that’s why. They can only destroy. However, as the Nobel Committees are themselves full of Marxists, it won’t belong before the standards will be vastly lowered to accomodate the worthless Marxists at Harvard, just as they’ve made jokes of the Nobel “Peace” Prize and the Nobel “Literature” Prize.
“Harvard and their ilk have failed to produce any Nobel Prize winners in more than 20 years in the hard sciences?”
2024 Medicine Prize: Gary Ruvkun
2019 Medicine Prize: William Kaelin
2009 Medicine Prize: Jack Szostak
2004 Medicine Prize: Linda Buck
2005 Physics Prize: Roy Glauber
2002 Physics Prize: Riccardo Giacconi
2013 Chemistry Prize: Martin Karplus
2023 Economic Science Prize: Claudia Goldin
2019 Economic Science Prize: Michael Kremer
2016 Economic Science Prize: Oliver Hart
2012 Economic Science Prize: Alvin Roth
2007 Economic Science Prize: Eric Maskin
2005 Economic Science Prize: Thomas Schelling
2001 Economic Science Prize: A. Michael Spence
Never let a few inconvenient facts stand in the way of a good MAGA rant.
Translated from above
“They all went along to get along” award. Idiot.
What exactly does that mean?????
It means you’re an idiot.
That explains how you didnt knkw what it meant, as well.
There is no such a thing as Nobel economic prize. Never was. Just aSk “no balls” Krugman.
The only “purging” that we are seeing is the purging of intellectualism from the MAGA-controlled GOP.
Idiot purged of a brain^^^
Some Fun Facts:
Biden is more fiscally-conservative than Eisenhower (had 70% top tax rate) and George W. Bush (inherited a balanced-budget from Bill Clinton).
Ronald Reagan signed 11 tax increases, unlike Bill Clinton never balanced the budget.
Richard Nixon’s healthcare plan was way more liberal than Obamacare. Nixon supported Universal Healthcare.
George W. Bush practiced “Borrow & Spend” economics, way worse than Democrats labeled as “Tax & Spend” (paying for the programs). Bush put the bill on our children’s national credit card, never paying for it.
So far Trump is the most fiscally-liberal president adding $8.2 trillion to the national debt in just 4 years. More fiscally-liberal than Clinton, Obama and Biden.
Does that make Trump a socialist and a communist – or just liberal?
“The result is that law students at schools like Harvard have relatively few faculty to reflect the views of half of the judiciary and the majority of the Supreme Court.”
This is a feature, not a bug. It is how they were able to have a revolution without firing a shot. They came for our kids at every level of education when we weren’t paying attention.
James has it right; walk away and stop sending your kids and your money to institutions that hate you and the things you believe in.
The term “higher education” does not apply to most institutions that were formerly known as “colleges” and “universities.” Today, there is only a wasteland of Leftist Indoctrination Entities (aka “LIEs”) that have replaced nearly all of them. The tax-exempt status of LIEs must be revoked. The mindless inhabitants of the LIEs will be in deep mourning after Donald J. Trumpt is declared to be the next President of the United States.
The victory of President Donald J. Trump will be huge defeat for the barbarian Marxists.
When actual, constitutional Americans get communism out of America, communists will be taken out of education.
Congress has no power to tax for or regulate education, Article 1, Section 8, and labor laws are illicit and unconstitutional bias that illegally favors unions over the free enterprises as private property that employ union members (i.e. union captives).
Unions are illegal, unconstitutional criminal organizations; AAUP’s sole bargaining chip is trespass, vandalism, chaos, and violence.
Stop. Giving. Them. Your. Money.
People act like this is a reflex, and I’m here to tell you: for anyone of any depth or success whatsoever, people do not in their later years reference their freaking college years unless they are unfathomable unhappy with their current lives, (You may think me a fool, but I went to HARVARD.’). Pfft. Pathetic. You are pathetic. Grow up, already. Stop giving money. Stop sending your kids. This is not hard, and it is preternaturally stupid.
When I meet someone and the first thing they mention is where they went to bloody undergrad, that is the time I walk away, at least conversationally. Yeah, sure, you paid a lot of money for an education receipt. This is not a measure of anything but how much money one spent, and that is sad. Just sad. NOBODY cares. Find a difference in the world you’ve actually made that wasn’t white savior boosheet – that would be a good start. I am sick of ‘liberal conversations’ basically amounting to, ‘ How we have contributed with our wealth without actually understanding problems’, I could spit. You are redefining ignorance, modern ‘liberals’. The Renaissance – didn’t mean a thing.
You are clowns, modern liberals. ALL of you. Every last one.
James,
Great comment! I never understood how some people feel they are defined by their degree or job.
“I never understood how some people feel they are defined by their degree or job.”
Says someone identifying himself as ‘Farmer’.
All MAGA cultists suffer from irony deficiency.
That’s why they are incapable of rational thought.
Well said Anonymous.
Very well said indeed.
Yes indeed Anonymous.
One the most well said things ever said.
I have to agree.
One of the most well said things ever said
Of all the things well said in the history of mankind this is by far the most well said.
Well said indeed.
Has anyone mentioned how well said that was????
^^^Obviously fake John Say^^^
Comment less than 25,000 words can’t be real John Say.
But I agree that what Anonymous said is extremely well said.
* hold on there, there are still brilliant teachers at those colleges who’ve adapted to the dystopia. It’s the student body that went to hell. As new teachers are hired that’s a problem based in poor scholarship CRT AND DEI. They’re doomed.
How foes it compute. These supposedly well educated professors will be voting for a party that has adamantly declared that their free speech must be limited. Being this well educated do they not realize that they will be walking on egg shells making sure that they do not say anything that might get them cancelled. They must be thinking that they will be immune from scrutiny. Kamala Harris will be watching them just as closely as they will be watching you. They will have to be careful in their writings that not one word can be construed as hate or misinformation less the trigger to their heads will be activated. It’s very strange that they do not believe that living in fear may soon be in their future even when the people they support tell them in their own words what there plans to limit speech are. Are the walls of the bubble that they live in that thick?
TiT,
They never would think, HA, that censorship would apply to them. Only to people without degrees. That is how they look at the rest of us.
Do you have any support for this claim?
These “educators” will never fear Cackle-Doodle-Doo so long as their only speech is, “Orange man BAD!”
Thinkitthrough,
Do you prefer Thinkitthrough, TiT, Tit, T or…?
So which is easier, creating enormous wealth or capturing control of a wealthy institution? The Left has been shrewd in its determination to take control of the high ground in our institutions and corporation. The intention of the donors and the interests of the students, be damned.
Saul Alinsky was a closely held advisers to Obama. His eleventh rule for radicals says this. RULE 11: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)“. Put more plainly he says that no solution to a problem is necessary just that the unrelenting quest for power and control is the goal. Michelle Obama quoted Alinsky in her speech in Denver. It’s sad that the leftist professors march in lock step to support this world view.
Just another pathetic effort to normalize Trump–as if there is or could be any equality between Trump and Harris, and that, somehow, college faculty responsible for the education of college students could support Trump. It’s not a choice between liberal or conservative–which Turley is trying to make the case for–Trump is mentally ill and dangerous–he is a malignant narcissist with delusions of grandeur–someone who believes that world leaders would ask his permission before invading Ukraine (Russia) or attacking Israel (Hamas). This is a chronic, habitual liar without any conscience or soul. He is a racist, a convicted criminal, a thief of charitable foundation funds, thief of classified documents, adjudicated to have falsified business records to cover up sexual liaisons, someone who brags about sexually assaulting women, who was adjudicated of sexually assaulting and defaming a woman, and someone who refused to accept the will of the American people in 2020 and tried, but failed, to hang onto power by bullying Secretaries of State, bullying the Vice President, and getting supporters to falsify Electoral College documents. When that failed, he got his supporters to attack Congress, trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. Then, there’s the lack of respect for our military, to whom he refers as “suckers and losers”. This is someone who wants the reins of power to seek retribution against anyone who does not support him and who threatens to take the FCC license of ABC because it dared to fact-check him, and CBS because he claims it edited an interview with Harris (just for a promo–CBS released a full transcript of the interview) even though Fox routinely edits out some of the more bat-sh*t crazy things he says in addition to his nonsensical ramblings. Dozens of those who worked in his administration warn that he’s not fit to serve and is dangerous, including his former chief of staff who says he is a fascist. Then, there’s Project 2025–the wet dream of Christian Nationalists, who plan to shove their consistently unpopular values and beliefs down the throats of the rest of us. Education is supposed to broaden the horizons of the educated–to teach them that misogyny and racism are wrong, that the government exists to serve the people–not the other way around. This person actually refers to people who oppose him as “enemies of the people” and says that foreigners are “poisoning the blood of America”–both concepts borrowed from Hitler. Why would any educated person support this person as leader of the free world?
Today’s little trash piece is even more than trying to pretend there is any equality between Harris and Trump — it’s a direct attack on higher education–another Trump theme–educated people are not to be trusted–that’s because educated people see Trump for the deranged wanna be dictator he is and oppose his racism, xenophobia, misogyny. More importantly, he panders to the resentment of non college educated whites who believe they are being ousted from their perceived positions of superiority by educated women and minorities. Trump teaches disrespect for science–climate change is a “hoax” because the fossil fuel industry gives him money–so he will do away with NOAA so they can’t report on climate change any more; the CDC is not to be trusted because the doctors there would not go along with his lies about COVID not being worse than the flu, or the quack cures of Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine–so now, parents aren’t getting their kids vaccinated against things like measles, mumps, rubella and diphtheria–and some will die and spread rubella to the fetuses of pregnant women who will either be miscarried or born with brain damage. THAT’s just part of the damage Trump has already done to this country.
No, Turley, there’s no equality here. This election is not between liberalism and conservatism–it is between democracy and fascism, and no matter how much Rupert Murdoch pays you to try to normalize Trump–it’s not working.
Seems to be working Gigi. You are in the monority here, just as you are in the populace. Trump is going to win bigly and I am personally going to laugh your skanky ass out the door.
By the way, why did you lie and say that you are both a lawyer and a nurse? Which was true? Either? Neither?
Why did you lie and say that the inflation rate was 9% when Trump left office? Why did you later lie multiple times and say you never said that?
as soon as I say “George” upvoted, I knew you were around, reading comments.
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My, how nice is it that you commented like a typical Bolshevik Democrat by pouring your poison out here for all to see. Actually dear, I like many hold my freedom over and above your “democracy” any day. This election is between those who insist on keeping and practicing their freedoms without interpretation by crooked lawyers, versus those who have no problem in voting away those freedoms and calling it “democracy”.
The election is between those who wish to fundamentally change the United States to a socialist, government-run economy and thought control and do not really believe in the country versus those who think the country is pretty darn good, want a government that allows individual liberty and a free market to for the good of all, not just a favored list of “preferred”.
what kind of “free market” includes a tariff on all imports?
Although tariffs are not part of a free market, they can be still be necessary to enable a free market to remain free. For example, if other nations achieve an advantage over the US by the use of child labor and slavery (as many do), that will eventually lead to the destruction of the free markets within America unless checked with tariffs. In stark contrast, all Dunceocrat policies are the antithesis of free markets.
When did giving free money on the basis of identity politics and putting student debt on blue collar workers become any kind of market other than the Marx Market?
Gigi has TDS. JT’s argument is about woke academia and has nothing to do with Trump.
Gigi;
This article was not about Trump – it was about the incredible left wing bias as top universities.
You are a total moron if you think that is good. Isn’t the D in DEI Diversity ?
It is exposure to ideas different from our own that improves all of us.
But since you wish to make this about Trump – you are right – Trump and Harris are not equal.
There is no comparison.
Trump was not part of the destruction of the City he was DA of.
He was not part of the decline of the State he was AG or Senator of.
He was Not VP of the country when massive federal spending caused a spike in inflation,
When household income for working class minority families declined by 4500/yr.
He was not the last one in the room when the Presidents bad policies and often deliberate choices triggered wars all over the world.
Trump did not prosecute and jail his political enemies – even though he easily could have.
He was not the last one in the room for policies that brought 10s of millions of illegals into the country.
He did not boost US jobs SOLELY for non-citizens.
There is absolutely no contest between Trump and Harris. The fact that this election is not a complete run-away for Trump
is purely because the left controls so much of the institutions in the US – the Media, Social Media, the deep state, Universities,
that lie over and over hiding the truth about Harris and lying about Trump.
If you could find ten ordinary people – unexposed to the media, social media, with no idea about Trump or Harris and presented those people neutral expositions of the FACTS about them, their history, their policies, their actual accomplishments, their failures.
9 of the 10 would pick Trump.
John Say,
Well said.
I work for a top 5 engineering college in the US. He’s right about the purge. Almost all of the remaining conservative faculty and staff were driven out of the University system by the vax mandates of 2021.
You say Trump is mentally ill ?
I would note that the actual data says that anxiety and depression are by far the most dominant forms of mental illness in the US.
That the rate of anxiety and depresion in those under 30 is double that of those over 40.
That the rate of anxiety and depression in women is double that of men.
That the rate of anxiety and depression in those who self identify as progressive is double that of those who identify as conservative.
If you are a young single white female progressive – the odds are 3:4 that you are suffering from anxiety and depression.
If you are an older white male conservative the odds are 1:10 – like Trump.
Open your eyes – the left has indicted him criminally 96 times, they have tried to assassinate him twice – possibly as many as 4 times,
He has had a bully pass within millimeters of his skull, and rip into his ear,
He is doing 3 times the campaign events Harris is,
And he is still going strong.
I am significantly younger than he is and the pace he is keeping would kill me.
Those of you on the left say that he seems tired sometimes.
I agree – this campaign is exhausting – doing about 1/3 of the events Trump does and speaking for 15minutes at each – not 3 hours extemporaneously Harris also look strained and exhausted.
What they are doing is exhausting.
But the joyful warrior nonsense of the Harris campaign is gone – Democrat are increasingly angry, bitter. hateful, spiteful
Read your own posts. You are terrified of the coming Trump presidency.
You have deluded yourself into beleiving that things that no one – certainly no Trump is planning and that have incredible obstacles should anyone actually try – are magically going to happen on day one.
You celebrate the generals that have come forward criticizing Trump. Even if you are delusional enough to beleive Trump will order them to arrest and inter Behar, Maddow, …. Do you think any of them would obey such a lawless order ?
How exactly is this idiotic end to “democracy” that you fear going to take place ?
We have already seen the arrest prosecution and jailing of political enemies – Navaro was jailed, Bannon was jailed for refusing a congressional subpeona on executive priviledge grounds – Holder, Garland, a long long list of top democrats have not been.
If the Trump DOJ arrested, prosecuted and jailed Garland – which is not going to happen – they would only be doing what Democrats have already done. To the extent there is a difference between Bannon and Navaros exertion of executive priviledge and the DOJs refusal to comply with congressional subpeonas – that would be that executive priviledge is a legitimate grounds to refuse a subpeona and congress is obligated to overcome that claim Before DOJ can prosecute for contempt. There is no other constitutional basis for those in the executive to refuse a congressional subpeona.
Regardless the point is that everything you worry Trump might do – the left has already done.
Those of you on the left say hate speech is not protected by the first amendment. That would include left wing hate speech targeting conservatives.
Trump would be WRONG if he went after those on the left for vile and hateful rhetoric attacking conservatives.
But he would not be doing anything those of you on the left have not already done.
Nor is Trump going to deport the 10-21M illegals that you illegally brought into the country.
But as president he has the lawful, power and authority and even obligation to do exactly that.
You rant that Trump will be less respected by foreign leaders – so what.
Trump could not possibly do a worse job in foreign policy than Biden/Harris.
No president since Kennedy has brought us this close to global nuclear war.
Trump is the first president since Ford to NOT start some foreign conflict.
There are atleast a million people dead in Ukraine because of the stupidity of Biden/Harris.
The left rants of the deaths of “innocent civilians” in Gaza. None of that would have happened but for Biden/Harris losening the constraints on Iran providing support to her terrorist proxies.
Even Muslims citizens in the US know that while Trump is the strongest supporter of Israel ever to be president, that his presidency brought PEACE to the mideast, while Bidens resulted in tens of thousands of dead muslims.
Aparently american muslims grasp what progressives and left wing nuts do not.
Why do people not merely Beleive – buy KNOW that Biden/Harris are responsible for the wars and tensions accross the globe ?
Because none of these happened under Trump.
Because the US did not look weak under Trump – as Biden/Harris did in afghanistan.
Because US energy policy under Trump weakened Russia and Iran, and strenghtened the US and EU.
Because the US contained Russia under Trump but was not stupid enough to THREATEN Russia.
Because the US contained Iran under Trump leaving the Ayatola’s with INTERNAL conficts to deal with, rather than being able to fund terrorist elsewhere.
Because as Harry Trump said “the buck stops here” – Biden/Harris presided over the world going to H311. Trump presided over a world moving towards peace.
Those of you on the left constantly claim your policies are important and make the world better.
Well you had your shot, and you FAILED. Progressives have the reverse midas touch – everything you touch turns to schiff.
Would Russia ask Trump’s permission before invading Ukraine ? Nope.
But they would have no reason to invade Ukraine under Trump.
Not only has Putin made it clear why he invaded Ukraine – EXACTLY the same reason that the US threatened to invade Cuba in the 60’s.
But he has followed through on that threat many times.
Every single time a state neighboring Russia has started talking about joining NATO – Putin has invaded them.
Putin told Biden when he took office not to start lose talk about Ukraine joining NATO.
Right up to the moment Troops crossed the border, Putin was happy to back down if the west – Biden would walk back talk of Ukraine joining NATO.
Whether you like it or not Biden owns this war – he actively thwarted peace talks in 2022.
From the day he took office he sought to be remembered as the President that defeated Russia.
Which is precisely why Trump will be able to get a peace deal easily, and Biden can not.
Biden would have to give up his expressed goal of regime change in Russia.
Putin will be gone soon enough – just as soon as the Russian people want him gone.
Russia is merely a regional power as it is, and diminishes by the day – whether she is at peace or war.
All that was necescary for the decline of Russia was patience that Biden and Democrats do not have.
Gigi,
Do you listen to your own nonsense ?
You sound like you have rabbies. \
you have terrified yourself of boogie monsters that do not exist.
There is no rising christian nationalist movement in the US.
Project 2025 is not the GOP platform and while there is too much neocon BS in it for me that is more in line with the far left today than the right, for the most part in the highly unlikely even most of it was implimented – the US would be a better place.
Less government, more free markets.
I would note the less government more free markets theme in project 2025 is inevitable.
The reckless spending of the left is unsustainable.
The deficit this year will be close to $2T – there is no epidemic, no financial crisis, no national emergency that is driving massive government spending.
Left leaning economists rogoff and Reinhart found more than a decade ago, that large deficits. result in stagnant economies.
Which is exactly what we have seen in Japan and Europe and we are begining to see in the US.
Or as Margret Thatcher said – the problem with spending other peoples money is that eventually you run out of other peoples money.
Trump has promised that he will not touch Social Security – but the FACT is that ALL govenrment programs will eventually have to be cut – RADICALLY.
The left stupidly beleives they can solve all our problems by raising taxes – but we KNOW in the US and throughtout the world – that does not work. When the burden of govenrment exceeds 1/3 of the economy – increased taxes result in a shrinking economy – not more tax revenue.
When the left leaning IMF and World bank move in to failed countries to bail them out – they do not propose higher taxes.
They propose draconian spending cuts – because you can not solve deficit and spending problems with taxes.
The point is whether it is Trump or the left – eventually cuts in Everything are going to have to be made.
Gigi, you are a deranged, demented, debilitated, depraved, despicable, despotic, disgusting, degenerate, demonic Dunceocrat incapable of telling even one sentence of truth. Why do you “think” Trump’s presidency was marked by PEACE? It’s because Trump was the President of Peace, that’s why, demonstrating genuine leadership. Biden-Harris, in stark contrast, flooded the enemies of America with cash, such as Iran and Russia, via direct payments and/or policies that vastly raised the prices of energy, inflating their profits to fund terrorism and wars worldwide, while punishing Americans economically. That’s why the Criminal Deep State pulled out all stops, including arranging to murder President Trump in this current election. But, fortunately, they were not successful, as they were when they set out to murder President John F. Kennedy so they could proceed with their Dunceocrat Vietnam War Plans. But “thinking” doesn’t apply to Dunceocrats such as you, who can’t think. Dunceocrats prove that Shakespeare was right when he wrote (sort of) that “Some are born stupid; some achieve stupidity, and some have stupidity thrust upon them.”
You see Trump: first as a “President”–he wasn’t– for the simple reason that he CHEATED his way into office and LOST the popular vote. Twice. You see “genuine leadership”–most of us see a malignant narcissist who has always been an attention-hog, always pretending that he’s wealthier than he is, that he is self-made, even though he is a trust-fund baby who squandered the wealth gifted to him and which he inherited. See “Lucky Loser” for details. You believe there is a “deep state”. Those of us who aren’t crazy KNOW that there is an existing government of dedicated civil servants who honor their oath to the Constitution and who couldn’t be bullied by a power-hungry narcissist who tried to bully them into doing things contrary to the good of all of us. So they get called names. Check out the comments and writings of Generals Milley and Kelly for examples, as well as the testimony of those who have spoken about Trump and his stupidity, lack of focus and generally dumb ideas. This is someone the rest of the world makes fun of–how do you think other world leaders view Trump’s comments about Arnold Palmer, his lies about Haitian immigrants, and his attacks on anyone who opposes him, his stupid tariffs, his ignoring of the advice of economists, and his endless childishness, his misogyny, his racism and general lack of quality as a human being?
Gigi’s little trash piece today is not about universities or even the political leanings of faculty, it’s about Trump.
Poor GIgi.
sick little girl. or boy.
Gigenius the spastic idiot.
You have been told, Trump won the ONlY popular votes for President BOTH TIMES.
29 and 26
Gigenius is an election denier and a skanky nasty human.
Gigi posted Just another pathetic effort to normalize Trump
You haven’t been normal since you amazed people by actually managing to exist the birth canal, Gigi. You represent bestiality and barbarianism versus civil society.
In your long reams of ranting with your post, did you take a stab at proving that Biden and Harris aren’t lying when they claim Trump said neo-Nazis are very fine people at Charlottesville? If you did, I’ll go back and see where it appears in this load of trash.
As a Trump victory looks more and more likely, I find myself fascinated with wondering how yourself, Dennis, etc are going to pose and flex with your posts here after Harris is crushed and in the dust.
Gigi/Giggles… just for poops and giggles we will have to do rollcall here every day after Trump is inaugurated. You, Dennis, Anonymous et al have been telling us every day that Trump as president is going to hunt you down and kill you when back in the White House.
So every day we’ll do rollcall here to find out if you still have a heart beat or if Trump has reduced you to room temperature as you predict he will do every day.
“Why would any educated person support this person as leader of the free world?”
Four reasons: groceries, gas, rent, interest rates.
The elites at the universities have listened to Harris compare Jan 6 to Pearl Harbor and 9/11 and they are very afraid. https://m.youtube.com/shorts/w7DW3Rbk4Jk. They are listening to Hillary Clinton compare the Trump rally at Madison Garden to a Nazi rally at the garden in 1939 and they are afraid. Hows all that joy and turning the page working out for you? What Obama really meant is if they go low we go a lot lower. The new approach comes from the ANTIFA wing of the Democratic Party. The language is eerily exactly the same. If Trump is elected there will be more mostly peaceful riots as the courthouses burn in the background. All the while the Professors are dripping with sanctimony as they wonder if baking powder was used to cook the Jewish babies. Not only Jewish babies but all babies even those who have been in the womb for nine months can be sacrificed if it furthers the cause. But Trump is the fascist?
It’s not just that they’re voting Democrat. They’re voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, easily the two worst candidates for anything in our nation’s history. And these professors are the ones who are supposed to be educating our nation’s youth.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, easily the two worst candidates for anything in our nation’s history
Yep, jamming those two blithering idiots onto one ticket has generated a nuclear explosion of horrible.
Professor Turley, Are you part of the 78 percent of the professor community that will vote for Harris or the 8 percent that will vote for Trump (or the 14 percent who won’t say or are undecided)?
Why is that any of your business?
I think it would be very interesting, informative, and transparent for Professor Turley to let blog readers know how he will ultimately vote given what he has said in his daily blog posts over the years.
No, it wouldnt. We have secret ballot voting here. You don’t need to know how he votes for any reason. It is irrelevant.
Wally writes:
I think it would be very interesting, informative, and transparent for Professor Turley to let blog readers know how he will ultimately vote given what he has said in his daily blog posts over the years.
It would be uneventful, old information and boring for Wally to let blog readers know his true gender, who pays his salary and why he can not get
laidmarried🔥
By overwhelmingly supporting Harris, professors are not only abandoning any effort to be more neutral; they are also admitting that substantive intellectual capacity doesn’t really matter to them anymore. They obviously could care less that their preferred candidate shows virtually no ability to think on her feet and/or coherently express a truly substantive though — fact that could not be more obvious at this point.
Exactly
Harris is the party of forever wars, abortion, censorship, open borders, inflation, crime, defund the police, energy subservience, climate cultism, kowtowing to China, mutilation of children’s genitals, withholding critical information from parents about their children, sexual grooming in public schools, men in women’s locker rooms, men in women’s sports, and, most recently, screaming obscenities in toddlers’ faces. So . . . of course the academy is for all of that. It follows directly from the well-documented phenomenon that the academy has lost its mind.
I would absolutely love a citation to each of these claims based on words that Kamala has said either personally or via her campaign website during this election cycle.
If that isn’t possible, perhaps you should find different sources for your news.
“Reality has a liberal bias.”
Yup, a Marxist logic: nature supports historical materialism and marxism-leninism.
Again, I give you….David Benson
I see you still havent tried the Rivastigmine patch, Davey.
“Reality” has a liberal bias – FTFY
But woke leftist liberals cannot define what a woman is, even college educated ones. Woke leftist liberals think there are some 97 different sexes. Some even think you can change your sex to whatever you want when you wake up in the morning. Others think they are cats. Some woke leftists think 2 + 2 = 5. Others think math is racist. Same with grades. Seems someone has a problem with reality and it is not conservatives.
@Upstate
Ever since Obama said to the effect that,’ A bachelor’s degree is the new high school diploma.’, which he did, we have been subject to this race to the bottom in higher ed. People are stupid. I do not know what we do, other than finally un-elect Obama for good, and that means obliterating the democratic in toto party next week.
James,
I think we need is to make a BA irrelevant. We need a alternative schooling or some kind of process that accredits the student through paid internships, vocational schools. Streamline the process so no one is forced to take useless and expensive DEI classes. Some companies have ditched the college degree requirements and are getting employees who are just as smart, sometimes even better, more motivated, then recent college grads.
Upstate could use some more schooling.
Especially when it comes to typos/spelling.
Thanks for the laugh. All of these years and you still don’t disappoint.
You use quote marks but don’t provide the citation. Classic.
Professors at universities, let’s see….
I give you…..
David Benson
Case closed.
When I was in college to get a top grade on a paper, you had to go to the university library and read the professor’s writings on your subject, then mould your own paper around his opinions (without plagiarizing). Thus he would think you were the second brightest in the class.
On the administration level, professors also have to conform their views to “peer review” I.E. “people like you must think like people like us if you wish to “contribute”. BTW, Fat donors must not be offended. It is a self affirmation racket.
Nazis, Fascists, Partisan Hacks, Conservative cleansing of Law School faculty. Amazing how these statements from American law professors sound exactly like Joe Stalin’s old Soviet Union. They have no self-awareness Jonathan. None.
Their complete lack of self-wareness is the only redeeming quality they have.
Only one professor who goes by the name Professor Pepperwinkle will vote for VP Harris if she sends him her underwear for a comprehensive lab analysis. It’s a scientific fetish thing.
Eventually, many high school graduates will determine they do not need to pursue higher learning at overrated and overpriced colleges. If anything, they will pursue a future path via trade schools.
Been there, did that, several decades ago. Worked out great for me.