{"id":2437373,"date":"2025-05-21T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/professors-who-study-fascism-made-a-big-show-of-leaving-the-country-only-proved-a-big-point-about-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T10:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:45:53","slug":"professors-who-study-fascism-made-a-big-show-of-leaving-the-country-only-proved-a-big-point-about-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/professors-who-study-fascism-made-a-big-show-of-leaving-the-country-only-proved-a-big-point-about-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Professors Who &#8216;Study Fascism&#8217; Made a Big Show of Leaving the Country, Only Proved a Big Point About Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprofessors-who-study-fascism-made-a-big-show-of-leaving-the-country-only-proved-a-big-point-about-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2437373&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent New York Times opinion piece, Yale professors Marci shore, timothy Snyder, and Jason Stanley expressed their decision to leave the U.S.due to fears of democratic backsliding linked to the Trump administration&#8217;s actions. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/william-sitton-doesnt-live-here-tracking-nevadas-dirty-voter-rolls\/\" title=\"William Sitton Doesn&#039;t Reside Here: Examining Nevada&#039;s Flawed Voter Lists\">article discusses issues<\/a> such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/witch-hunt-house-democrats-pass-measure-to-identify-non-existent-neo-nazis-in-military-and-law-enforcement\/\" title=\"Witch Hunt: House Democrats Pass Measure to Identify Non-Existent &quot;Neo-Nazis&quot; in Military and Law Enforcement\">civil liberties violations<\/a> and the risks of authoritarianism.Stanley emphasizes this departure as a protest against what he perceives to be a &#8220;democratic emergency,&#8221; while Shore warns about the regression of American democracy. Both professors are moving to the University of Toronto, with Shore likening the situation to historical examples of societies facing authoritarianism, suggesting a sense of urgency in escaping potential threats to academic freedom. The piece critiques the paradox of voicing such fears in a public medium while claiming to escape an oppressive regime, questioning the authors&#8217; analysis of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actress-sarah-paulson-talks-finding-the-humanity-in-clinton-whistleblower-linda-tripp\/\" title=\"Actress Sarah Paulson Talks \u2018Finding The Humanity\u2019 In Clinton Whistleblower Linda Tripp\">current political landscape<\/a>. the article tackles themes of freedom, the responsibilities of academia, and the nature of perceived threats in contemporary society.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder, and Jason Stanley, are &mdash; or rather, were &mdash; Yale professors who study fascism.<\/p>\n<p>They published a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >guest opinion piece<\/a> in The New York Times on May 14, a hybrid seven minute video and text piece, where the gist of the whole thing was in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/14\/opinion\/yale-canada-fascism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headline<\/a>: &ldquo;We Study Fascism, and We&rsquo;re Leaving the U.S.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>You know why, of course: Donald J. Trump, 45th and now 47th president of the United States, is part of the reason why &ldquo;America is especially vulnerable to a democratic backsliding&rdquo; and they&rsquo;re going to the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>You know what people who study fascism who are afraid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-just-saved-us-path-true-american-fascism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">of fascism<\/a> do not do if they are afraid of a fascist state? Make seven minute videos about why they&rsquo;re so afraid of that fascist along with an article before they leave the authoritarianism they claim to be escaping, then submit them to the country&rsquo;s paper of record.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Legal residents of the United States sent to foreign prisons without due process. Students detained after voicing their opinions. Federal judges threatened with impeachment for ruling against the administration&rsquo;s priorities,&rdquo; the text portion of the article opened.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p><em>Professor Stanley is leaving the United States as an act of protest against the Trump administration&rsquo;s attacks on civil liberties. &ldquo;I want Americans to realize that this is a democratic emergency,&rdquo; he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Professor Shore, who has spent two decades writing about the history of authoritarianism in Central and Eastern Europe, is leaving because of what she sees as the sharp regression of American democracy. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can&rsquo;t sink,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can&rsquo;t sink.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Which is, I believe, what we heard the&nbsp;<em>last<\/em> time Donald Trump spent four years in the presidency. And even after protesting the election results the last time, he still left the Oval Office, did not engage in mass campaigns of illegal detention or lawfare against his enemies, or bend the Constitution to his whims.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, that was mostly left to his successor and his party, which spent the better part of the next four years engaging in a campaign of lawfare against Trump and hiding the fact their president was <em>in extremis<\/em>, mentally and physically, for practically the entire thing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m moving for the University of Toronto to do my work without the fear that I will be punished for my words,&rdquo; said Stanley, a philosophy professor.<\/p>\n<p>This is an ironic statement to utter from someone in academia, considering the fact that getting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/documents-expose-democrat-senator-attempting-weaponize-irs-conservative-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">punished for wrongthink<\/a> happens all the time on college campuses, particularly in the Ivy League. (Meanwhile, defend Hamas as part of a radical student organization that ran roughshod, criminally, over Columbia University&rsquo;s campus, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/radical-history-behind-lefts-new-terror-supporting-hero-facing-deportation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch people howl over your visa being revoked<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The lesson of 1933 is that you get out sooner rather than later,&rdquo; said Shore, a professor of history.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the lesson of 1933 is also that anti-Semitism and statist centralization are unique evils &mdash; which, when they collide, cause catastrophic damage to a society. In fact, that should be the&nbsp;<em>major<\/em> takeaway from that&nbsp;<em>annus horribilis<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why she&rsquo;s leaving an American university campus because &hellip; oh wait, they&rsquo;re all mostly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/harvard-president-takes-pay-cut-school-can-continue-racism-whites-hatred-jews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fine with anti-Semitism<\/a>, and any economic system that encourages moving away from statist centralization is generally frowned upon. But I guess Toronto is colder and has more statists?<\/p>\n<p>And so on and so forth. The video is six minutes so stuffed with ominous music and rapid-fire clips with filters and zooms that you&rsquo;d swear it was done by the same people responsible for election-season campaign ads &mdash; and, for all we know, it was.<\/p>\n<p>Heaven knows the pivot shaft on the revolving door between Democratic Party politics and the New York Times newsroom needs quite frequent lubrication given all the use it sees, and the only difference here is that it&rsquo;s seven minutes, and you&rsquo;re paying to see it if you&rsquo;re a subscriber, not 30 seconds a candidate or their PAC is paying you to look at. Suckers.<\/p>\n<p>However, once you get beyond the appeal to emotion that the video and the words are meant to engender, what you have is three people who are so scared of the big bad fascist that they&rsquo;re &hellip; posting a big fat exit notice before they get out in the one place where everyone in America can see it.<\/p>\n<p>You know, just like those fleeing fascism always did as they were running out the door, leaving their loved ones and possessions behind as they tried to stay one step ahead of the secret police, lest they be sent to the prison camps. Right. Apparently, <em>studying<\/em> fascism and <em>identifying<\/em> it aren&rsquo;t exactly correlated all that closely.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Their piece included a seven-minute video and text that conveyed the main message in the headline: &#8220;We Study Fascism, and We&#8217;re Leaving the U.S.&#8221; They attribute their departure to concerns about Donald J. Trump&#8217;s influence on American democracy. Professor Stanley is leaving as a protest against what he sees as attacks on civil liberties by the Trump administration, while Professor Shore believes American democracy is regressing sharply. She likens the situation to people aboard the Titanic insisting it won&#8217;t sink-historically inaccurate since no ship is unsinkable. Despite their fears of fascism, they are publicly announcing their exit from America rather than fleeing quietly like those escaping real authoritarian regimes. 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