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“We Study Fascism…We’re Leaving the U.S.”: The NY Times Runs Video of Yale Professors Fleeing to Canada

The New York Times continues to work tirelessly to maintain the narrative that the United States is now a fascist regime. Earlier, the Times demonstrated its view of balanced analysis by running a collection of legal opinions titled “A Road Map to Trump’s Lawless Presidency.” Now, it is featuring three Yale professors fleeing fascism for the safety of Canada, making direct references to the rise of the Nazis. The video is titled “These Yale Professors Study Fascism.”

All three professors are going permanently to Canada to teach at the University of Toronto. It appears that the systemic rollback of free speech for conservatives in Canada is not a deterrent for Yale professors longing to be free.

The seven-minute opinion video features the three scholars:  Yale philosophy Professor Jason Stanley and history professors Marci Shore and Timothy Snyder (who are married).

Shore insisted that the United States is now a fascist country replicating the Nazi takeover. Indeed, she mocks those of us who believe that our constitutional system has proven itself for centuries as a guarantor of civil liberties, including our system of checks and balances. Shore dismisses such assurances while suggesting that the American people are a virtual ship of fools in not recognizing the fascists all around them: “The lesson of 1933 is that you get out sooner rather than later.” She added that Americans are

“like people on the Titanic saying, ‘Our ship can’t sink.’ We’ve got the best ship. We’ve got the strongest ship. We’ve got the biggest ship. Our ship can’t sink,” she said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

Professor Snyder declared that Americans are deluding themselves:

“If you think there is this thing out there called ‘America,’ and it’s exceptional, that means that you don’t have to do anything. Whatever is happening, it must be freedom. Soon, you are using the word freedom, what you are talking about is authoritarianism.”

The New York Times splices in ominous images of migrants being detained, children crying, and anti-Israel protesters being arrested. It also shows the image of Elon Musk’s alleged Nazi salute, a ridiculous claim fostered by the media.

Previously, Snyder did interviews claiming an oligarchic conspiracy led by Musk:

“we’re shifting from a democracy, which had some pretty heavy oligarchical streaks running through it, toward something like an oligarchy, in which I think it’s fair to say that it’s not Trump who’s the most important person. It’s Musk. Trump has debts. Musk has money. Trump has debts specifically to Musk for getting him elected. And I think the burden of proof is actually on Trump to show that he has any room for maneuver in this system. And it’s going to be interesting to see how congressional Republicans react, because what this particular oligarch wants is to break the federal government. And whatever their views might be, not — many of them don’t actually want the United States of America to cease to exist so that oligarchs can pick up the pieces.”

That is who the New York Times featured in its latest apocalyptic diatribe. What is interesting about one interview is how Snyder predicts Trump will engage in censorship through litigation, noting that it will not involve direct censorship barred by the First Amendment. He entirely ignores the massive censorship system of conservatives fostered by the Biden Administration on social media. That was apparently not something that you would speak out against, let alone leave the country over.

Professor Stanley’s past contributions to the political debate include his condemnation of “the right-wing hateosphere” in a diatribe that he later reaffirmed:

I am really, truly, embarrassed by the fact that my mild comment ‘F[**]k those assholes’ is being spread. This wildly understates my actual sentiments towards homophobic religious proponents of evil like Richard Swinburne, who use their status as professional philosophers to oppress others with less power. I am SO SORRY for using such mild language.

In the New York Times video, Stanley clinically explains that “you know you’re living in a fascist society when you’re constantly going over in your head the reasons why you’re safe. What we want is a country where none of us have to feel that way.”

It is a curious statement. Most of us fight to preserve our civil liberties to maintain a country that remains the longest, most stable, and most successful constitutional system in history. We do not dramatically pick up our things and stomp out of the country in a self-aggrandizing huff.

Losing elections can certainly make some “feel that way,” but for the rest of the country, it seemed like democracy at work. In the meantime, our courts are sorting out challenges to Trump executive orders, with many judges, including Trump appointees, ruling against the Administration. Those are the pesky “checks and balances” that Professor Shore blissfully dismissed in the New York Times video.

What is truly striking is that even Yale (which has purged virtually all conservatives from its faculty ranks) is not sufficiently “safe” for these three academic émigrés. They are going to the University of Toronto and Ontario to feel truly safe.

Of course, Ontario is not viewed as a safe space for many conservatives or contrarians. It proved hardly protective for University of Toronto professor emeritus Jordon Peterson when he was ordered to take mandatory training classes to curb his controversial writings. That order was upheld by successive Canadian courts.

So now these three academics will relocate to Toronto to teach Canadian students about fascism. They may, however, want to tread lightly on the subject of free speech.

289 thoughts on ““We Study Fascism…We’re Leaving the U.S.”: The NY Times Runs Video of Yale Professors Fleeing to Canada”

  1. The Three Yale Professors scurried away to a nation and demos-cracy that would empathize with their fascist teachings.

  2. OT

    86 16

    Sorry.

    “I didn’t know what 86 means.”

    Besides, somebody already did that.

    My bad.

    Signed,

    James!

  3. In yet another in the series of stories that you really couldn’t possibly make up, even if you tried:

    The Trump DOJ has allowed 17 members of Mexican drug lord El Chapo to enter the United States.
    Apparently they have made some sort of deal with El Chapo’s son.
    There has been an ongoing war for control within El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel and his family has now been offered refuge and protection in the US.

    Nothing says fighting drug smuggling from Mexico quite like protecting the family of the leader of the biggest Mexican cartel.

    I wonder how much the El Chapo family is paying Trump for this protection.

    You really could not make this up if you tried.

    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-13/were-17-members-of-el-chapo-guzmans-family-escorted-into-usa-from-mexico

    https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/el-chapo-family-guzman-son-66nlqflp5

  5. To communists, everyone else is a fascist. It has been their go-to accusation since the earliest days. The communist party in pre-war Germany changed their name to “Antifascists”, because everyone hated communists, and rightly so. And of course they are still with us, still hiding behind masks, still scheming and conniving, still trying to take over, still accusing everyone else of being “fascist”. Canada is a good place for them. Hopefully someday they’ll fall afoul of the regime and get de-banked.

  6. Jobs at university of Toronto? Well they got out, right? In the words of one young Harvard student, you do what ya gotta do.

  7. That’s is a great place for them 🇨🇦 There’s a huge suck sound coming from the Bank of England 🇬🇧 all over the British Colony of Canuckistania.
    The derivatives flowing out of it should impact their paycheck and cramp their lifestyle. U.S. Tariffs will slow the bleeding this parasitic leech to the north of U.S.,
    This should be a permanent one-way ticket for the derelict Expat Defectors, after-all we can’t having them slipping in-&-out of the States having their Maple Syrup Cake and eating to. Along with a total divestment of their Pension funds, U.S. Social Security, and ban from American Investments & Markets. After-all they have principles – don’t they.

    Buh-Bye Canuckistanians

  8. It is noteworthy how Musk has replaced Putin as the bogeyman who elected Trump. Democrats can’t accept that they lost a fair election.

          1. Not for long !!!!
            2022: 62% of EV sales
            2023: 55% of EV sales
            2024: 49% of EV sales
            Q1 2025: 43.5% of EV sales

            Tesla topped the list for recalls last year.
            The Cybertruck body panels are glued to the frame and tend to fall off.

            Tesla is toast !!!!!?

    2. “Democrats can’t accept that they lost a fair election.”

      Democrats cannot conceive of a fair election, because their intention is to never allow one to take place.

  9. Meanwhile former FBI director James Comey is trying to inspire more assassination attempts against Trump, then claiming “Gee I didn’t know that’s what it meant” when any third grader in America knows it. Like JT has written about before, there is a genuine assassination culture on the Left these days. The Left in America is stark raving mad. They are not the “loyal opposition,” unfortunately.

    1. OFK – If we were the fascistic country the Yale professors assert we are, James Comey would be put on trial for his life. Instead, his assassination-chic will either be ignored or praised.

      1. Edward – true indeed. And the broader point that illustrates is that MAGA lacks a worthy adversary. I know I’ve said it before, but having a worthy opponent is just as much of a blessing as having a worthy friend, and we lack that right now.

        P.S. I like your new avatar.

          1. Very nice 😊 👍

            And congrats! My daughter just got married and the wife and I are hopeful for a grandchild in the not-too-distant future.

    2. old man

      I laughed when he said. He’s has no idea what 86 means….

      Right, and you ran the FBI.

      2. Dustoff and Not-so-old: You both are sooooo right.
        “‘Cool shell formation on my beach walk,’ Comey wrote in the caption accompanying the Thursday Instagram post. Comey later clarified in a follow-up post, ‘I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message.'”
        https://time.com/7285796/james-comey-86-47-trump-threat-investigation-instagram-post-fbi/

        Either of you might loosely remember something I wrote on this blog months ago about “stochastic terrorism” (subtle, coded messaging). Speaking for myself, why would Comey (who admits that he thought it was “cool” political messaging) even want to post this on social media? Cameraderie? Seeking out like-minded? Encouragement?

        1. Lin – My money is on encouragement. Like all the other MSM talking heads saying it’s the end of democracy, it’s Hitler, it’s Nazi Germany, Comey is trying to reach mentally unstable, but armed, perps to try and take him out. They have almost succeeded with two such people, so why not keep trying?

  10. These professors identify as fascism “experts” and demand that we respect their assumed identities. Sorry, I prefer to dead name them as Marxist creeps.

  11. Bye bye- you can forget to write. And by the way, you don’t know what the heck you’re talking about. I recommend Today’s ISMS, by Ebenstein. An oldie but a goodie. Had you read it, you might realize that Canada is closer to an authoritarian government than the US

  12. Every member of DOJ, DHS, FBI, NSA and CIA swear supreme loyalty to the U.S. Constitution – that is the American Oath of Office. One cannot serve in government without agreeing to this loyalty oath.

    The U.S. Constitution is a wartime governing charter designed to be followed even during wartime.

    So without physically harming anyone, it does seem that the DOJ, DHS, FBI, NSA and CIA actually have an oath-sworn duty to disrupt “domestic enemies to the U.S. Constitution” – it’s part of their loyalty oath.

    Anyone that supports illegally amending the U.S. Constitution through executive order and ignoring court rulings is precisely the definition of a “domestic enemy to the U.S. Constitution”. Every federal employee/contractor has a duty to resist Trump’s constitutionally-subversive policies!

    1. Green-background anon, you come on here and spout the exact same lies every day. Aren’t your communist overlords creative enough to come up with new lies, at least to keep us entertained. You have no idea how boring you are.

    2. It’s so easy to post stupidity whey you hide behind anonymity. You are wrong. Period. Name one court order that he has defied. You can’t because he is using the courts you claim he’s defying,

    3. An
      You are so right. Now ask Biden why he did just that. Cancel college loans

  13. Addition by subtraction. Here’s your hat; what’s your hurry. Don’t let the door hit you in your ivy league derriere.

  14. Remember all of the people who claimed they were going to leave the country after Trump was elected the first time. I think the total was zero. Maby Yale can replace these three with some real professors????

    1. These people are so laughable. “You know you’re living under fascism when you constantly have to go over in your head why you’re safe,” was perhaps the funniest line. All I could think of was, “You know you have mental illness when you’re an American professor and you can’t stop imagining that the fascists are coming to take you away.”

  15. Leaving the U.S. to escape fascism by moving to Canada. 🤔🫡🤣 Dan Bongino would characterize them as stupid smart people. Hopefully their video goes viral and we have a massive outflow of like-minded people.

  17. So rich coming from the newspaper that suppressed news of the ongoing holocaust and shilled for Stalin. It is not a newspaper. Its is a disgusting piece of garbage

  18. Them: We’ll make our own communistic, anti-fascist utopia! With Indigenousjack! and non-binary LGBBQ hookers!
    -Rabble

  19. BREAKING NEWS

    The Babylon Bee reports: Home Depot Adds Self-Deportation Kiosks

    “U.S. — Home Depot has begun rolling out self-deportation kiosks so local day laborers hanging around outside their stores can conveniently deport themselves for a nominal fee.

    “We are always looking for new ways to serve our customers, and Mexican day laborers are among our most loyal,” said Home Depot CEO Dave Depot. “That’s why we’re proud to announce a partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to make deportation a breeze.”

    Illegal aliens say they’re so excited to deport themselves that they would have considered lining up early if they weren’t already loitering in Home Depot parking lots every day.

    “¡Guau!” said Eduardo Esteves before he was detained by ICE agents. “¡Tan conveniente!”

    “¡Gracias, el Home Depot!”

    To ensure a smooth experience, the self-deportation kiosks feature a Spanish interface, and an ICE agent is always on hand to help anyone having trouble checking out.

    “Okay, now press ‘No’ if you don’t want any bags,” an ICE agent wearing a Home Depot apron helpfully explained to a customer on one occasion.

    At publishing time, despite their initial success, Home Depot discontinued the use of their self-deportation kiosks after they saw a noticeable slump in sales.”

    Noone

  20. Are these scholars of Fascism going to Canada because they can find more of it there?

    Makes sense. Then they can do the EU where Fascism is popping up everywhere.

    1. “All three professors are going permanently to Canada to teach at the University of Toronto.”
      I wonder how long “permanently” is?

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