I was going to write about this yesterday, but since the video that sparked a thousand tweets is behind a paywall, I decided to give it a pass. 

I've changed my mind, and since I can give you a gift link, I will let you decide whether you want to visit the Times and watch the tiresome bit of self-flattery yourself. 

...All three professors are going permanently to Canada to teach at the University of Toronto. It appears that the systemic rollback of free speech for conservatives in Canada is not a deterrent for Yale professors longing to be free...

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 16, 2025

Jonathan Turley's article on the affair summarized the stunning arrogance of both the Times and the three Yale professors who created a 7-minute video explaining that Trump is a very bad, very nasty Hitlerian Orange Man. 

All three professors are going permanently to Canada to teach at the University of Toronto. It appears that the systemic rollback of free speech for conservatives in Canada is not a deterrent for Yale professors longing to be free.

The seven-minute opinion video features the three scholars:  Yale philosophy Professor Jason Stanley and history professors Marci Shore and Timothy Snyder (who are married).

Shore insisted that the United States is now a fascist country replicating the Nazi takeover. Indeed, she mocks those of us who believe that our constitutional system has proven itself for centuries as a guarantor of civil liberties, including our system of checks and balances. Shore dismisses such assurances while suggesting that the American people are a virtual ship of fools in not recognizing the fascists all around them: “The lesson of 1933 is that you get out sooner rather than later.” She added that Americans are

“like people on the Titanic saying, ‘Our ship can’t sink.’ We’ve got the best ship. We’ve got the strongest ship. We’ve got the biggest ship. Our ship can’t sink,” she said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

Marci Shore and Timothy Snyder, the married couple whose commentary kicks off the video, happen to be teaching at the University of Toronto already--being there since before the election--and had already decided to settle there because they have snagged nice sinecures and love Canada. So their "escape" from the hellhole that the United States and Boston have become turns out to be a nice career move, but let's not let inconvenient facts get in the way of a good narrative. 

These professors somehow missed the last four years in which the government imposed medical fascism on the populace, shoved propaganda down our throats, spent millions of dollars prosecuting a former and future president, censored millions of American citizens, and paid other countries to do so as well, sent the FBI after conservative Catholics, named white males potential terrorists, and gave free rein to radical groups to vandalize and intimidate dissenters. 

No, they didn't miss it, actually. They applauded it, in the name of fighting fascism. 

“The powers that be can do whatever they want to you”

Trump can’t even deport people who have deportation orders against them without a federal judge stepping in.

This is firmly out of touch with reality.

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) May 15, 2025

These professors--who The New York Times promotes as "experts" on fascism (or are they experts on promoting it?)--live in a fantasy world akin to those MSNBC and The View-types who claimed to be seriously worried that they would be tossed in jail for opposing Trump. 

Or perhaps you’re using your perch of professor of how my political opponents are really fascists to inflate your own career, helped on but outlets desperate for clicks.

The only cost? The social fabric of the United States I suppose.

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) May 15, 2025

Get real. Nobody is cowering in attics waiting for stormtroopers to drag them off to camps. I wasn't even worried about that in 2022 when half of all Democrats wanted the unvaccinated put into camps, and a third wanted the state to take away their children. Since nobody but liberals are talking about putting liberals in camps, fearing that it will happen is a sign of mental illness, not creeping fascism. 

Just two years ago, 30% of Democrats believed that children should be taken away from unvaccinated parents.

Nearly 50% of Democrats believed that the unvaccinated should be sent to camps.

These are not tolerant, kind people.

This is what a totalitarian ideology looks like. pic.twitter.com/W8eGNsO6BJ

— Kevin Bass PhD MS (@kevinnbass) January 11, 2024

I talked with one of those Democrats about this in 2023, after they admitted that they were part of that 50% who wanted dissenters put into camps. He explained that he was "scared," as if that was reason enough to blow up the country. That is proto-fascism, not taking away the research grants of insane people who are quite openly bent on "decolonizing" America through violence. 

That is who the New York Times featured in its latest apocalyptic diatribe. What is interesting about one interview is how Snyder predicts Trump will engage in censorship through litigation, noting that it will not involve direct censorship barred by the First Amendment. He entirely ignores the massive censorship system of conservatives fostered by the Biden Administration on social media. That was apparently not something that you would speak out against, let alone leave the country over.

Professor Stanley’s past contributions to the political debate include his condemnation of “the right-wing hateosphere” in a diatribe that he later reaffirmed:

I am really, truly, embarrassed by the fact that my mild comment ‘F[**]k those assholes’ is being spread. This wildly understates my actual sentiments towards homophobic religious proponents of evil like Richard Swinburne, who use their status as professional philosophers to oppress others with less power. I am SO SORRY for using such mild language.

In the New York Times video, Stanley clinically explains that “you know you’re living in a fascist society when you’re constantly going over in your head the reasons why you’re safe. What we want is a country where none of us have to feel that way.”

Ironically, in the same week as the Times warns us that creeping fascism is driving "experts" out of the country, they endorse debanking people and hence exiling them from modern society. 

The first one is worse than I had anticipated. Thoughts here: https://t.co/kA7GRlRzEJ

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) May 15, 2025

Imagine trying to live in the modern world without a bank account.  It is nearly impossible to do so without retreating to a cabin in the woods. No buying houses or cars without having tens or hundreds of thousands of banknotes hidden in your mattress, difficulty in getting a job because of the scarlet letter on your back...

Prominent conservatives have already been debanked--Melania Trump, Nigel Farage, and countless others have suffered the indignity, but as prominent and wealthy people, they found ways to get around the problem. A normal person? No way. 

Perhaps a social credit system doesn't count as creeping fascism. Clearly, the proponents of creeping fascism don't think it deserves the name, just as silencing their opponents is really "fighting misinformation" and tossing your political opponents in jail or bankrupting them is "defending democracy."

This is tiresome beyond measure, and while the movement of "anti-fascism" remains very dangerous because it is so entrenched in the elite circles that the New York Times speaks to, most of the country is as tired of it as I am. Where are the legions of ordinary Americans manning the barricades to defend Harvard and Yale professors who applaud hordes of Maoist students rampaging on campuses, locking Jews behind closed doors, destroying buildings, and declaring allegiance to Hamas and other murderous terrorists?

They don't exist. Most of us are tired of subsidizing this moral rot.