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.
“’We Study Fascism…We’re Leaving the U.S.’: The NY Times Runs Video of Yale Professors Fleeing to Canada”
– Professor Turley
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It is not a study of fascism without mentioning its foremost purveyor, Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln denied the not prohibited constitutional right to secession to entire American States full of once-free American citizens, commenced an undeclared unconstitutional war by failing to remove his military from sovereign foreign territory, imposed martial law to become a de facto dictator, suspended habeas corpus to smash printing presses and imprison political opponents, confiscated legal, deeded, private property, issued an arbitrary and unconstitutional “proclamation,” failed to enforce duly legislated immigration law and deport people who could not be admitted to become citizens as dereliction, negligence, and a high criminal act, “fixed” the 1864 election, etc., etc.
Lincoln was the utmost and consummate Fascist. The licit, legal, constitutional, and duly legislated course of America must have been adhered to. Lincoln must have obeyed the law. Reprehensible slavery was withering on the vine, and, by law, the long-suffering former slaves must have been compassionately repatriated—the overwhelming desideratum of all abductees. As a matter of fact, the Israelite slaves were out of Egypt before the ink was dry on their release papers—but then they had the capacity and acumen sufficient to the task.
Lincoln threw the baby out with the bathwater; Lincoln threw the Constitution out with reprehensible slavery.
American freedom persisted for a mere 71 years until its death in 1860, when Abraham Lincoln assassinated the Constitution.
LDS (Lincoln Derangement Syndrome)
I notice that you were unable to refute with facts.
Fact: everyday you try to re-fight the Civil War. Fact: that war has been over for 160 years. Fact: you are mentally deranged.
The unconstitutional acts of Lincoln that persist to this day must be abrogated and extirpated as invalid, illegitimate, illicit, and unconstitutional.
Lincoln killed the Constitution and free America for the benefit of illegal aliens who must have been compassionately repatriated by duly passed legislation.
Lincoln had an extreme dislike for the law.
Do you like the law?
Do you like anti-psychotic drugs? Seriously, get a prescription ASAP.
They call it FASCISM, not due to any acts of the current administration but because the sponges, leeches and parasites are deathly afraid of losing their undeserved, undue, and wholly UNCONSTITUTIONAL “free stuff” and “free status,” everything up to and including admissions affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, CRT, DEI, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, PBS, NPR, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc.
Once-free Americans were NEVER to be required to pay for, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,” or to lose their constitutional rights, freedoms, privileges, and immunities.
Those were the intentions of Karl Marx.
Karl’s Junior has some tasty burgers.
Of course we all remember the Canadian government’s punishment of those who protested Covid-19 vaccines, eh?
“The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) froze 206 financial products, including bank and corporate accounts; disclosed the information of 56 entities associated with vehicles, individuals and companies; shared 253 bitcoin addresses with virtual currency exchangers; and froze a payment processing account valued at $3.8 million, Duheme said at a news conference.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/20/americas/canada-trucker-protest-covid-sunday/index.html
The Biden Administration has demonstrated the fragility of our constitutional republic. It will take only one more like-minded administration to (as Barry Soetoro stated) fundamentally transform America.
Every person in the world is an American-In-Waiting, waiting to storm the border and get his fair share of “free stuff” and “free status” from actual American taxpayers who have been paying since the Boston Tea Party. Obongo is going to have every one of his polychromatic relatives feeding, nay, gorging at the American public trough after he is done “fundamentally transforming the United States of America” into a welfare office of foreigners whom the American Founders actually refused and did not “admit to become citizens” in their immigration law, the Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, and 1802 (four iterations for maximal clarity). The American Founders established their Nation, their Law, and their Population. Obongo is fundamentally transforming that once-free and once-great nation into the Global Philanthropic, Charitable Lonely Hearts Club and Redistribution Clearing House.
“It appears that the systemic rollback of free speech for conservatives in Canada is not a deterrent for Yale professors longing to be free.”
These three have volunteered to man their own ship of fools. They are now totally free within the constraints of their own self-imposed conformity. Let us hope they remain true to their ideals and never end their chosen exile.
Fleeing to Canada, “GOOD”!
Idiots. If there is anything “rising” it is Bolshevism, not Fascism.
If these three so called academics ever met a real Nazi they’d need to change their underwear.
Do you mean like boot camp after they took your civvies, shaved your head, and let the fun begin?
That’s all Canada and the University of Toronto needs: more radical leftists. They should fit right in with all the Islamo-Leftists on campus in keffiyehs shouting their adoration of Hamas.
Pseudo intellectuals, published by a pseudo intellectual former newspaper.
This, of course, ignores the dramatic flounce that breathes life into a narrative that resonates less and less on a daily basis as the unfolding of reality fails to mirror the pearl-clutching predictions of hopelessly ideological Cassandras who continue to wishcast with purple prose and cast themselves as both victims in a way that never would be allowed if the repression they pretend at actually existed, and as brave warriors against an authoritarianism whose pretended existence perits them to pretend at a relevance that would excuse their shallowness and lack of actual achievement.
“Wishcast”
Got it, Clarence.
Really: this is so clownish and ass-backward to anyone over the age of 40 it would be hysterical if these were not the people we were spending veritable fortunes to ‘teach’ our children. How do people this age remain so privileged, tone deaf, and ridiculous, literally their entire lives, and seemingly only get worse and even more clownish as time progresses (pun intended)?
Good riddance, children! Don’t let the door hit ya! Hope we aren’t still paying for your sorry behinds in any way, shape, or form here stateside, because you are a disgrace to your profession, your cohort, our young people, and your purported ideals. Pfft. The saddest thing: most of us do not care. Go back to cardboard signs on street corners, they are about as effective. 🙄🙄 And get back on your meds.
PS – if we did not live in the era of social media and algorithms, we’d never even know this was happening. Do not underestimate the drama opportunism, all of it hollow and unactionable in any meaningful way, and they know it. Literally a temper tantrum.
OT
Attorney General Pam Bondi must immediately appoint a Special Counsel to investigate former FBI Director James Comey, his co-conspirators et al., for inciting and conspiring to “8 6 4 7,” or assassinate the 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
James Comey did not mean to beat Trump in an election that is over or to impeach him, which will happen effectively on January 20, 2029.
James Comey is fully aware that there have been two assassination attempts on President Trump.
James Comey’s participation in the anti-Trump, anti-American, anti-Constitution activities of the Deep Deep State “Swamp” is now a proven fact.
James Comey’s complicity with and protection of the perpetrators of the illegal mishandling of classified material by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is now a proven fact.
Comey: “I dunno, I think it might’ve been political. What’s that? It says to kill Trump? Oh, heh heh, what a coincidence. Me no likey Trump, what a coincidence that the weird stone-spelled letters just happen to say sommat that me likey, heh heh, me had no idea.”
Another ‘diversion’ tactic.
Follow the Perkins Coie/Judge Beryl Howell (Obama appointee) Breadcrumb trail. … Comey, Mueller, Clinton, Obama, et.al. … Ukraine War
I took a picture on the beach of arranged sand dollars. OMG, what could it mean?
The professor has identified the core issue – they have an opinion and are expressing it – as is their right (not just of the US Constitution, but more generally as individuals who have the rights of humanity).
Choosing to emulate Rudolf Hess when he flew to the UK to “protest” the power structure he had supported and grown is an action quite decipherable when performed by three professors having the same opinion about the monster they’ve facilitated.
In the annals of political rhetoric “fascism” will go down as one of the most abused and, alas, one of the most effective terms employed by the port side of the political spectrum over the other. But even it has a shelf life as these departing souls serve to reveal. Typically, another more benign term replaces one that becomes shopworn, but lacking a consensus on what the new term of opprobrium should be, these folk make the mistake of putting intolerable strains on the tedious cliché that suggests a haplessness typical of those positioned on the final cusp of a curve that is marking a significant change or transition.
Daily Riddle
What do you call three Yale professors abandoning the USA for Canada?
Answer:
A start.
Answer: An Eminently Positive Development!
This could a serious foreign affairs crisis. Canada gone be pissed
Jonathan: Yale professors are moving to Canada because they fear the US is on the path to fascism. This may not be 1933 Germany but we could be close. Anyone who has studied the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party can see the similarities between what happened in Germany and what is happening now under the DJT regime. But you optimistically think “our constitutional system has proven itself for centuries as a guarantor of civil liberties, including our system of checks and balances”. What makes you think American “exceptionalism” is a guarantor against a fascist dictatorship here?
The Weimar Republic was also a democracy. It had a functioning court system with guarantees of free speech and the press. It also had a multi-party system of governance. That all abruptly ended in 1933 when Hitler gained absolute power. Political parties, other than the Nazi party, were suppressed and their leaders jailed, killed or sent into exile. Freedom of the press was abolished. Independent judges were fired and replaced with Nazi judges. You are naive to think it couldn’t happen here. Here are some of the worrying signs.
To begin his second term DJT has ruled by decrees–issuing over 100 EOs bypassing Congress. Almost all his EOs have been ruled by the courts illegal or unconstitutional. One of his first EOs was to abolish “birthright citizenship” contained in the 14th amendment. As mentioned in your previous column the SC heard oral arguments yesterday in this case that will rule on the narrow issue of whether nationwide injunctions are lawful. If DJT wins that means courts will be limited in how they can address DJT’s constitutional overreach.
Then, DJT has violated the Constitution by using his secret police to round up immigrants, lawfully in the country, and sending them to a concentration camp in El Salvador and denying them their fundamental due process rights. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a test case to see whether the DJT regime will abide by multiple court orders, including that of the SC, and return this El Salvadoran immigrant to the US to have a due process hearing before a judge–something he was denied in the first instance. Under DJT even US citizens have been deported. But immigration is not the only way DJT has shown his autocratic tendencies. He has issued EO’s sanctioning law firms because they have clients or causes DJT doesn’t like. No other president has ever done that.
Like most fascist dictators DJT is frustrated that his decrees have been blocked by the courts. So he now has Plan B. Steven Miller, the real fascist driving force behind the WH immigration policy, said this week that if the courts continued to stand in the way and defy “el Supremo” the regime will declare a state of emergency and suspend the writ of habeas corpus contained in the Constitution. That one act will declare the Constitution a nullity!
Need any more evidence we are on a path to fascism? DJT is still out of the country. Yesterday he took time out to address US troops stationed in Qatar. And what did he tell them? After a lot of saber rattling DJT told the troops he was planning a big military parade in DC next month–to celebrate his 79th B-day. (Hitler also held a huge military parade in Berlin on April 20, 1939 to celebrate his 50th B-day!) DJT went on to claim he won “three elections” and his supporters want him to stay on for a fourth term–or even beyond. Dictators never give up power willingly.
So clearly the signs of a fascist takeover are there for all to see. But you apparently think it couldn’t happen here. That’s because you are a law professor and not a historian. DJT is also not a historian but he did read the speeches of Hitler and learned a valuable lesson about how to acquire and hold onto absolute power. The Yale professors can see the signs and are leaving for Canada while the getting is good. Can’t blame them!
AG was not lawfully in this country. And he had plenty of due process, assisted by counsel at every point.
An immigration court ruled that Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13 and thus deportable. The BIA upheld this determination. AG could have gone to the Circuit court but did not. Thus the determination stands.
In parallel, AG applied for asylum, years too late, in front of a different immigration judge. His claim was properly denied. But the IJ decided he could be deported to any country except.El Salvador, because a rival gang had menaced the family’s pupuseria.
michaeldix: Pammie Jo Blondie is wrong. Excerpted from “The Poynter Institute”, dateline 4/16/2025:
“Attorney General Pam Bondi: “In 2019, two courts, an immigration court and an appellate immigration court, ruled that (Abrego Garcia) was a member of MS-13.”
This needs context. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Abrego Garcia in 2019 as he was looking for day labor outside a Home Depot in Maryland. A police informant told police Abrego Garcia was an MS-13 member. Immigration judges denied Abrego Garcia bond, both initially and on appeal, citing the informant’s accusation.
In the initial denial, the judge said the determination of Abrego Garcia’s gang membership “appears to be trustworthy and is supported” by evidence from the Gang Field Interview Sheet which, in part, referenced the informant. Abrego Garcia’s attorneys have repeatedly said in court that the informant’s accusation was fabricated.
The immigration judges’ decision to deny bond is not equivalent to ruling that Abrego Garcia was a gang member, David Bier, associate director of immigration studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, said.
In immigration bond hearings, detainees have the burden of proof to show they are neither a flight risk nor a danger to the community. Abrego Garcia “failed to meet his burden to show that he was not a danger,” Bier said. That’s not the same as the government proving affirmatively that he was an MS-13 member.
“The immigration judge is only taking at face value any evidence that the government provides,” Bier said. “It is not assessing its underlying validity at that stage.”
Abrego Garcia later received an immigration protection called withholding of removal. Granting that protection required the Department of Homeland Security to decide Abrego Garcia was not “a danger to the security of the United States,” Bier said, quoting U.S. immigration law.
“The Trump administration did not appeal these determinations or the granting of withholding of removal,” Bier said. “So at that time, it did not consider him a threat and no new evidence has been presented since then.”
Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, an attorney for Abrego Garcia, told PolitiFact his client has “never been convicted of any crime, gang-related or otherwise,” and we also found no court evidence he had been convicted. Neither of the immigration court proceedings constitute a conviction, because they were not trials.”
WHY do you rely on MAGA media lies?
Yale professors are moving to Canada because they fear the US is on the path to fascism.
Hey moron, what these professors apparently never learned is that every government ever established is by it’s nature on the path to fascism. Fearing that is an irrational response. As if to prove that point, these stupid smart people consciously made the decision to move to a nation significantly further down the road to fascism. The fact they would feel more comfortable living under such a regime further demonstrates their lack of understanding of how our constitutional republic was designed to work. You should take your fear and join them. We don’t need you or them.
Seeking Karl Marx (i.e. Mr. Fascist).
Eschewing Freedom and Survival of the Meritorious.
US is on the path to fascism.
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What a flat out lie.
Who forced the CV shot on everyone Biden did.
You might actually want to look in a mirror. Over the past 10 years the left in this country has acted more like Nazis than the right. Today these anti- Israel protesters are missing only their brownshirts. Government censorship of news and news outlets supporting the govt by reporting easily identified lies.
Very nice piece of projection.
Yep!
And yet you can type all this without fear.
Yep!
If you are a parent thinking about sending your kids to Yale, this is the caliber of the teachers there. Not a pretty thought.
Tch, tch. One of the 3 does not have a position @ U. Toronto.
Do your research with greater care, Professor.
Sad. Just sad.
Good riddance!