Princeton Prof Calls Trump’s ‘DC Takeover’ a ‘Slide Towards Fascism’
“enacting an authoritarian agenda”
This is going to be the ongoing narrative of the left. It’s so tiresome.
The College Fix reports:
Princeton professor: Trump’s ‘DC takeover’ a ‘slide towards fascism’
A Princeton University professor claimed recently that President Trump’s “takeover” of Washington DC is a sign we’re “sliding towards fascism.”
Appearing on “Democracy Now!,” Professor Khalil Muhammad (pictured) said Trump “has consistently scapegoated Black and Brown people to either gain celebrity or political capital” and is “enacting an authoritarian agenda” in his second term as chief exec.
How original.
Muhammad, Princeton’s inaugural Professor of African American Studies and Public Affairs (and director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project), said Trump is using “militarization of law enforcement” to “either coerce or control scapegoated populations.”
He cited the National Guard in Los Angeles as another example.
“And I just want to remind everyone that the Trump administration elected in 2016 came in riding on a lie about American carnage in American cities,” Muhammad continued to hosts Juan González and Amy Goodman.
“This was also a period of dramatically declined crime rates and violent crime rates, in particular, across U.S. cities.”
Indeed, the segment claims the nation’s capital reached “a 30-year low in violent crime” this past January, a common refrain in the mainstream media the last week or so. (Of course, there is (a lot) more to the story.)
Muhammad said “what is consistent is Donald Trump’s use of racist rhetoric, racist ideas, and the use of policing to enact a domestic policy agenda.” In addition to the National Guard in LA, Muhammad said Trump wants to do the same in New York and Chicago — yet he pardoned numerous January 6 “insurrectionists.”
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A Muslim denouncing racism. Ha-ha. Tell me about the dhimmi all through Muslim dominated countries. As for “declining” crime rates, those may or may not be genuine given how shoddy crime statistics have become. Also, what President Trump has done in DC (which IMHO is insuffient because home rule should be ended) is well within Congressional statute and Constitutional mandate.
The Ivy’s descent towards irrelevancy has just DEIcelerated
Talk to me about fascism when we can make (much less remake) a Mohammed Prophet Superstar musical starring a black woman…
Yeah, because saving lives and stopping crime is soooo “fascist.”/sarc
“… riding on a lie about American carnage in American cities,”
Right. The protests were, after all, mostly peaceful. No carnage at all—unless you call carnage, well, carnage.
He is confusing declining reports in crime (why bother) with actual declining crime (which isn’t).
Meanwhile, Princeton has been sliding into Maoism for a long time.
Who is this clown, anyway? Is he a US citizen? If not, he can be deported. Let him practice his version of “academic freedom” from those bastions of free speech in the Middle East!
I don’t care what a black muslim says about anything. There are at least 3 strikes against him
1) Chigago black
2) Muslim
3) Ivy league affiliation
He should just GFO.
If Ivy League universities want to continue their transformation into radical incubators they will have to do so without any tax support. Unfortunately that will shut down some good research and bring an end to many jobs in academia, but they can’t have it both ways. They are doing serious damage to a generation, and must be stopped.