CU Boulder Prof Claims Trump’s Venezuela Action Shows U.S. is ‘Fascist Authoritarian Regime’
“This is not the newsletter I thought I would send.”
This is so tiresome. These people just constantly look for anything to prove their delusional views.
The College Fix reports:
CU Boulder professor: Trump’s Venezuela action shows U.S. is ‘fascist authoritarian regime’
Without mentioning President Donald Trump by name, a University of Colorado at Boulder professor criticized the Republican leader in a campus newsletter Tuesday for turning the United States into a “fascist authoritarian regime.”
“This is not the newsletter I thought I would send. I wrote a version on January 2, and then I woke up on January 3 and learned that the US had taken control of Venezuela (insert stronger language as you wish),” Professor Jennifer Ho wrote in the January issue of the Center for Humanities & the Arts Newsletter.
Ho, the director of the arts center, was referring to President Trump’s Saturday military action in Venezuela to remove dictator Nicolás Maduro.
“The US is a fascist authoritarian regime,” she wrote.
Ho said she felt it incumbent upon herself to make the statement as someone “in the business of knowledge production and education.”
A professor of Asian American studies, she said Trump’s actions represent “competitive authoritarianism” – which is “political science jargon for countries that have the trappings of democracy, but without a level playing field.” The definition comes from Brian Klaas, professor of global politics at University College London.
To counteract “authoritarianism,” Ho urged colleagues and students to fight back by “centering the stories and artistic creations and scholarly and artistic research” and building “community.”
“And I think if we care about arts and humanities and people being fully enfranchised humans, then we have to do all the things we can to reduce harm in as many ways that we can,” she wrote.
The university added a note at the top of Ho’s letter on the center’s website, stating that her comments do not reflect the public institution’s views.
The Director of CU Boulder's Center for Humanities & the Arts has a message for the university community:
"The US is a fascist authoritarian regime."
They'll fight back by "centering the stories and artistic creations and scholarly and artistic research" of the community. pic.twitter.com/ik1yaJip7g
— Brandon Warmke (@BrandonWarmke) January 6, 2026
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b/c according to the ho
only mamdami should take over usa citizens legal property ownership
while djt shouldnt get back the assets stolen by her lefty buddies
“Ho urged colleagues and students to fight back by “centering the stories and artistic creations and scholarly and artistic research” and building “community.”
Peace Through Pastels!
How delusional.
Hey Hey… Hey Ho…Jennifer has got to go ,. back to China,
She’s not from China. She was born here, which makes her American.
Strongly worded letter to follow?
If, according to the good professor, the US is a “fascist authoritarian regime,” I wonder what the good professor has to say about the Chavista Maduro regime.
Does the good professor realize that in the 2015 legislative elections, the opposition won two thirds of the seats in the National Assembly, only to have Maduro dissolve it?
Does the good professor realize that in the 2024 Presidential election, the Chavista Maduro regime violated the election law that Chavismo had written by not releasing the Actas, the paper copies of election results for each precinct? The paper copies which would have proven fraud? (The opposition had gotten copies from enough precincts to show fraud, but the government was obligated to officially release all after the election, but never did so.)
Academics really don’t care what normal people think, as long as they keep giving them money to be crazy. They create and live in a homogeneous bubble of Wokethink that rewards perversity, so they compete to see who can be both the most progressive and the most outrageous to the unenlightened. Recently there are have been more consequences for this, but they really do believe that they have every right to spread their wisdom widely to achieve intellectual martyrdom (though always with the tenure safety net, just in case). This professor is obviously oblivious to the sea change taking place around her, and will likely be truly shocked with the ultimate outcome of all this attention. Education is the last refuge for really dumb smart people, and when all is said and done they won’t be missed.