Jason Stanley, a professor at Yale University, announced he may be leaving the country and enrolling at the University of Toronto in response to the president’s crackdown on Ivy League colleges and immigrant students. ” Donald Trump is not just that,” he said. He claimed that Donald Trump’s system is responsible for the current situation, calling it an “autocratic takeover”. According to Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy,” The United States is in the operation of an authoritarian invasion and it’s directed by a program that I don’t suppose will want to keep power.”
” The colleges are not going to have together,” Stanley said,” Columbia’s complete and utter surrender, really giving up to an autocratic routine.”
The author of the 2018 text How Fascism Works: The Politics of the US and Them announced that he has accepted a position at U of T’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
He claimed that making up his mind to accept Toronto University’s offer helped him when Columbia University kneeld before the Trump administration to secure$ 400 million in funding.
” That complete way of thinking presupposes that some colleges will be targeted, and you don’t want to be one of those institutions, and that’s just a losing strategy,” he said when I saw Columbia completely capitulating and I saw this vocabulary of, also, we’re going to work behind the scenes because we’re not going to get targeted.
I don’t see it as feeing, I say.
Stanley stated in an interview with the Guardian that he was thinking about leaving the US in 2017, but that the following Trump presidency is going to be much worse, he believes. He claimed that his mother left Berlin in 1939, and that he sees this in a similar way, even though he claimed that he did never mean to flee but rather to join Canada. ” I see it as joining Canada, which is a goal of Trump, merely like Yale is a goal of Trump,” he said.
” Piece of it is that you’re leaving, because it’s like leaving Germany in 1932, 33, 34,” you say. My mother and I left Berlin with my father in 1939, so there’s a frequency. Therefore, it is a traditional home practice,” Stanley said.
