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:
She asked Stanley if the “current political environment” was “impeding you from teaching what and how you’d want to teach?”
Stanley assured her that was “absolutely not” the case, as “Yale has… protected its scholars, unlike Columbia.” Rather: “[I]t has nothing to do with me. It has everything to do with my children, and my desire to send a warning to Americans that is …