This is a pleasant surprise. Of course, these professors are not full-on Trump supporters, they just believe he is a better choice than the alternative.
PJ Media reports:
Welcome Aboard: College Profs Backing TrumpA group of university professors are circulating a petition and a statement among their colleagues to support the Republican ticket in the upcoming presidential election. The project is titled “Lesser Evil.” These professors are not MAGA-hatted hardcore conservatives, but citing Adam Smith, they have reached the logical conclusion that fundamental freedoms will be better preserved under a Republican administration than a Democratic one. The project is the brainchild of Daniel Klein, a professor at George Mason University, and Daniel Mahoney, professor emeritus of political science at Assumption University. On the website, Klein explains the rationale behind the effortThe group is looking for tenured professors at American universities to sign the petition. The College Fix notes that as of Thursday, 51 professors had signed on, double the number of signatories in late August.The site also has an interesting graphic showing how Republicans are “less bad” than Democrats regarding various issues.While we are not seeing a landslide of people shifting from left to right or even from center to right, there is momentum. Ironically, people like these professors, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., politicians, and people from all walks of life understand something that easily escapes the Democratic Machine, its celebrities, media figures, et al. It is something that even eludes the Never-Trump conservatives who go to such pains to remind everyone how truly erudite and illumined they are. That thing is this:At its heart, the whole effort behind electing Trump isn’t about Trump. Don’t get me wrong, Trump is the consummate celebrity. The point can also be made that he made some very sound decisions while in office. The four years that followed Trump’s term bear testimony to that. But Trump is the central issue for those on the Left and the various hangers-on and celebrities and other denizens. Well, Trump and a desire to hold on to power until the universe collapses from entropy.It is true that there are some dedicated Trump fans out there, and among some of his most ardent supporters, he is steps away from apotheosis. However, for most Trump supporters, particularly those who have recently migrated to the cause, Trump is not the issue.The issues are, to name a few:
- The decline of free speech and even free thought
- A government that is designed to benefit a small and isolated class of people
- A government that has grown beyond any reasonable size and is only getting bigger
- A ruling class that withholds information, whether it involves a president’s son or a pandemic
- The threat of increasing taxes combined with high prices and a scarcity of goods
- A government that cannot manage its affairs with the country’s enemies
- U.S. citizens becoming smaller and smaller as governments, local, state, and federal, contort themselves into all sorts of positions to accommodate illegal aliens
- Students who thrive on rage and subsist on gender but are unequipped to function in the real world
- A government that will pursue pro-lifers and school board parents to the ends of the earth while ignoring skyrocketing crime rates and decaying cities
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