Welcome Aboard: College Profs Backing Trump

PJ Media ^ | September 05, 2024 | Lincoln Brown

[T Ruth]

A group of university professors are circulating a petition and a statement among their colleagues to support the Republican ticket in the upcoming presidential election. The project is titled "Lesser Evil." These professors are not MAGA-hatted hardcore conservatives, but citing Adam Smith, they have reached the logical conclusion that fundamental freedoms will be better preserved under a Republican administration than a Democratic one. The project is the brainchild of Daniel Klein, a professor at George Mason University, and Daniel Mahoney, professor emeritus of political science at Assumption University. ...

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The group is looking for tenured professors at American universities to sign the petition. The College Fix notes that as of Thursday, 51 professors had signed on, double the number of signatories in late August.

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... [F]or most Trump supporters, particularly those who have recently migrated to the cause, Trump is not the issue.

The issues are, to name a few:

• The decline of free speech and even free thought
• A government that is designed to benefit a small and isolated class of people
• A government that has grown beyond any reasonable size and is only getting bigger
• A ruling class that withholds information, whether it involves a president's son or a pandemic
• The threat of increasing taxes combined with high prices and a scarcity of goods
• A government that cannot manage its affairs with the country's enemies
• U.S. citizens becoming smaller and smaller as governments, local, state, and federal, contort themselves into all sorts of positions to accommodate illegal aliens
• Students who thrive on rage and subsist on gender but are unequipped to function in the real world
• A government that will pursue pro-lifers and school board parents to the ends of the earth while ignoring skyrocketing crime rates and decaying cities

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[chajin]

The first time in my life I wish I had become tenured, so I could sign. (Eschewed research for teaching, I perished instead of published.) Thank the Lord for such courage.

[Inyo-Mono]

Mighty interesting.

[DIRTYSECRET]

College-who cares? I’m watching Deion get his butt kicked by Nebraska. His big mouth works against him. Too bad he doesn’t support Trump.

[Flaming Conservative]

Praise the Lord!

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

JUST WOW.

[ryderann]

This is super! And I like to think of Navarro and Bannon inside prison talking up Trump to fellow inmates in order to persuade their families into voting for Trump. Staff too.

[Kudsman]

I applaud cenere convictions wherever I find them. I just wish more had the desire to act on those convictions. Way to lead by example Proffs. Cause for Joy.

[Kudsman]

Cinsere. Eeegads.

[Kudsman]

Omg. Sincere. See yall later!

[MayflowerMadam]

OK. End times fer sher

[simpson96]

Just a wild guess...all males, and none are “people of color”.

Hard to imagine Profs that are female or minority, endorsing Trump.

But this is a start.

[econjack]

I taught econ at two Big 10 universities and had many in-class discussions about markets. Friedman was, and still remains, my hero and I used many of his examples from Free To Choose in my class, both grad and undergrad.

There was a cost, however, even back in 1970's of being a conservative. I ate lunch alone...a lot! One thing I've learned, however, is that Liberals who promote Socialism/Marxism don't have examples to draw upon. The fastest way to shut them up is to ask: "Tell me one example where that worked?" Almost always: crickets.

[Chengdu54]

I’m retired, tenured, emeritus, but I’d certainly sign if allowed.