Anti-Trump Resistance
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He and his wife did not want to raise their young children in the United States. According to his wife, Marci Shore, who was also a scholar at Yale:
But most important for Shore was that she and her husband made the decision with a sense of what would be best for their 14-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter — citing the “American catastrophe” playing a role in their thinking.
“Their whole childhood has been coloured by one world-historical catastrophe after another: the first Trump administration, the plague, the gruesome Russian-Ukrainian war, the American descent into fascism,” wrote Shore.
“My impulse was to leave immediately after the November 2016 elections — and we very nearly did. We vacillated, but ultimately decided to stay. I felt very needed, especially by my students at Yale, who were dazed and scared and struggling to understand what was happening around them.”
Shore said she is “terrified about what’s happening and will happen” in the U.S., and she called Columbia University’s capitulation to the Trump administration’s demands “chilling,” adding that she suspects many more American scholars will also leave the country. (Washington cut $400 million (U.S.) in funding over its handling of student protests related to Gaza; in an effort to get it restored, the school agreed to policy changes including over discipline and academics.)
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Continuing on a theme of members of the intellectual class exiting the United States, I’m well aware of Timothy Snyder, but not his wife, now Chair of European Intellectual History at the University of Toronto. I was not familiar with this scholar either, but it’s not a surprise under authoritarian regimes.
The Fascism Expert at Yale Who’s Fleeing America
Philosophy professor Jason Stanley is leaving the US for Canada, “the Ukraine of North America,” because he believes Trump’s America is “pretty far along” in the grips of fascism.
Jason Stanley has spent the last two decades writing about power, language, and the ways both are corruptible. He is an expert on authoritarian regimes and the author of seven books, including 2018’s How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them and last year’s Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, and has been a member of the Yale University faculty since 2013.
Last week, in what he calls an “impulsive” decision prompted by Columbia’s capitulation to Trumpadministration demands, he decided to leave—not just Yale, but the country altogether. This fall he’ll decamp to the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, where he was offered the position of Bissell Hyatt Chair in American Studies.
“Educational authoritarianism is frequently accompanied by more general restrictions on knowledge,” he writes in Erasing History, “and by attempts to push mythic representations in place of that knowledge.” In the book he likens conservative activist groups seeking book bans to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels keeping lists of books to be censored, and outlines attacks on the rights of LGBTQ+ people by various fascist regimes throughout history (among which he counts the Trump administration). When I ask whether he sees warning signs in sectors outside of education, he responds, “Are you f****** with me?”
We already have a fascist regime: Jason Stanley, the Yale scholar leaving the United States amid Trump’s authoritarian turn
The philosophy professor says he is emigrating to Canada because no one is defending democratic institutions in the United States.
aldianews.com
Jason Stanley, professor of Philosophy at Yale University and a renowned expert on fascism, has decided to leave the United States. His decision, he says, stems from what he describes as the consolidation of a "fascist regime" under President Donald Trump. Stanley’s departure is far from quiet: he has been publicly denouncing the atmosphere of fear that, in his view, has taken hold in American universities and other academic institutions.
In an interview with Amanpour and Company, broadcast on YouTube on March 26, 2025, Stanley warned that "authoritarianism requires a culture of fear," and that, in his view, the United States is already heading down that path. "They're creating a culture of fear in K-12 and universities," he stated, pointing to new Department of Education guidelines aimed at imposing a state-driven patriotic ideology, while censoring teachings that acknowledge systemic racism in the country.
Stanley's concerns are not limited to academia. Speaking to BBC Mundo, he explained that his decision to move to Canada is also motivated by personal reasons. "The main reason is the political climate, both for my profession as an academic and for my children, who are Black and Jewish," he said. He added that he is deeply alarmed by how American Jews are being placed at the center of political debate and used, in his words, by the Trump administration as "a kind of sledgehammer for fascism."
Here is the Amanpour interview:
From a different perspective, some think fleeing prior to being persecuted is the same as obeying in advance:
Be a Patriot
Fleeing America before you are threatened is a lot like obeying in advance.
www.theatlantic.com
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Red
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The Resistance grows….
www.theguardian.com
dailytrust.com
‘A trickle to a tidal wave’: behind the Trump protest movement that launched on Reddit
From humble beginnings, the 50501 community is one of many coming together to resist the president and his policies
www.theguardian.com
50501 Protests: A Historic Wave Of Civic Engagement And Growing Dissent In Trump’s America - Daily Trust
The recent “50501” protests, during which thousands of Americans rallied across all 50 states, mark a significant moment in the US’s political landscape.
dailytrust.com
Sardines
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I sense a flashpoint approachingThe Resistance grows….
‘A trickle to a tidal wave’: behind the Trump protest movement that launched on Reddit
From humble beginnings, the 50501 community is one of many coming together to resist the president and his policies
50501 Protests: A Historic Wave Of Civic Engagement And Growing Dissent In Trump’s America - Daily Trust
The recent “50501” protests, during which thousands of Americans rallied across all 50 states, mark a significant moment in the US’s political landscape.
Red
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So do I, hopefully. I’ve been watching Maddow in the evenings. She always starts off showing scenes from protests around the nation. Usually ends her show that way as well. Love reading all the signs, and feel encouraged watching.
Like what I’m seeing in the polls as well. Has to have a political effect eventually. Saw a headline this morning that said he has the lowest approval rating after the first 100 days, in 80 years.
Trump Approval Rating Dips Among One-Time Supporters
Trump has a 42% approval rating in the latest New York Times’s polling average, released Friday.
www.forbes.com
Trump’s Job Rating Drops, Key Policies Draw Majority Disapproval as He Nears 100 Days
Trump's approval rating stands at 40%, and Americans mostly disapprove of his tariffs and government cuts.
www.pewresearch.org
Sardines
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I've given up on hope that the most devout cultist will ever snap out of it. Last election we got lazy again like in 2016, thinking Biden wasn't great and Harris is not very energizing and that Trump wasn't "that bad" so many sat on their hands or voted for Trump because they wanted some kind of change. The majority has never supported Trump, but they need to be mobilized into action and actually get out and vote against him.So do I, hopefully. I’ve been watching Maddow in the evenings. She always starts off showing scenes from protests around the nation. Usually ends her show that way as well. Love reading all the signs, and feel encouraged watching.
Like what I’m seeing in the polls as well. Has to have a political effect eventually. Saw a headline this morning that said he has the lowest approval rating after the first 100 days, in 80 years.
Trump Approval Rating Dips Among One-Time Supporters
Trump has a 42% approval rating in the latest New York Times’s polling average, released Friday.
Trump’s Job Rating Drops, Key Policies Draw Majority Disapproval as He Nears 100 Days
Trump's approval rating stands at 40%, and Americans mostly disapprove of his tariffs and government cuts.
Red
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Maybe we’ll have one of these moments. Thanks to groups like 50501. Seeing thousands of homemade signs, personal messages of resistence, is inspiring. Each person took the time to think “what do I want to say to authority?” Trump helped stir people’s darker angels. Maybe we the people will turn the tide….
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RK20OpnUjI
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‘60 Minutes’ Schedules Another Segment On Trump: His Targeting Of Law Firms
The show's correspondent Scott Pelley spoke out about corporate interference earlier this week.
deadline.com
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America’s Slide into Authoritarianism, as seen from TED 2025 | Washington Spectator
Historians (if they exist in the future and any records of this period survive) will note this month as one where the United States slipped fully into authoritarianism. Incompetence, luck…
washingtonspectator.org
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PJF
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What a complete fool and hypocrite. Public airplanes are for the little people...
View: https://x.com/CNviolations/status/1920459153731993697?t=0Lqm4jZmP1gIAF0R2GC4kw&s=19
View: https://x.com/CNviolations/status/1920459153731993697?t=0Lqm4jZmP1gIAF0R2GC4kw&s=19