MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera Monday invited Jason Stanley, Yale University’s so-called “fascism expert” and the author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, to mouth off about why he was supposedly moving to Canada. Stanley claimed he was doing so over Columbia University’s “capitulation” to the Trump administration in cracking down on overt anti-Semitism on campus, and cynically used the fact that he’s Jewish and was raising his children as Jews to somehow back up his incoherent position.
Cabrera introduced Stanley by ignoring the details of the campus and boasting that he:
[I]s departing the hallowed Ivy League school to teach in Toronto… ‘entirely because of the political climate in the United States.’ This comes as the Trump administration threatens to withhold funding for preeminent institutions like Columbia, which…
