There are a lot of people on the left in higher education who have absolutely no idea why Trump won. That’s how you get this.
The College Fix reports:
Parade of UC Berkeley professors say Trump won thanks to sexism, racism, conspiracies, anti-trans hateUC Berkeley scholars blame Donald Trump’s re-election victory on a wide variety of identity politics issues, from sexism and racism to conspiracy theories and anti-trans hate.Berkeley’s official news outlet published on Wednesday a series of interview vignettes with nearly a dozen professors, and they all suggested Trump’s “decisive” victory exposes sinister parts of America’s underbelly.None cited the porous U.S.-Mexico border and the Biden-Harris administrations hyper-lax border policies dealing with illegal immigration as having played a role. While two of the scholars did cite the sluggish economy as part of Trump’s path to victory, they did not stop there.It’s not just “the economy, stupid,” said Professor Raka Ray, dean of Social Sciences.“I would never discount the racist and misogynist rejection of a Black and South Asian woman; the deliberately circulated fears and lies that fed the wounded racial and masculine identity of particular demographic groups; the willingness of some immigrants to shut the door behind them; and the bogey figure of ‘trans’ that came to stand in for historic changes that were hard to grapple with,” Ray said.Although Trump faced punitive “lawfare” campaigns from both the federal and state level over the last four years, political science Professor Jacob Grumbach, leader of Berkeley’s “Democracy Policy Lab,” said the “election has made clear that a majority of Americans are willing to vote for a candidate who threatens the rule of law, a serious concern of the Founders.”Michael Mark Cohen, associate teaching professor of American studies and African American studies, said “once again we will have a conspiracy theorist-in-chief.”“…This new administration will be staffed with conspiracy theorists like Stephen Miller and RFK Jr., who promise to deliver Trump’s vengeance,” Cohen said. “…But now, instead of this being a fringe fantasy, Trump’s authoritarian, if not openly fascist, conspiracy theories will be backed by the might of the American Empire.”
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