Moving to Canada
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A Yale professor who studies fascism is leaving the US to work at a Canadian university because of the current US political climate, which he worries is putting the US at risk of becoming a “fascist dictatorship”.
Jason Stanley, who wrote the 2018 book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, has accepted a position at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Stanley told the Daily Nous, a philosophy profession website, that he made the decision “to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship”.
He said in an interview that Columbia University’s recent actions moved him to accept the offer.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/yale-professor-fascism-canada
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Per Wiki: He is the grandson of Ilse Stanley, who secured the release of 412 people from Nazi concentration camps from 1936 to 1938, and the great-grandson of the Berlin Cantor Magnus Davidsohn. Stanley describes his Jewish background as informing his writing on fascism: "To me, my Judaism means an obligation to pay attention to equality and the rights of minority groups."
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This is probably as good a thread as any to include this Atlantic piece.
America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State
For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.. -
There was a very good analysis that I saw recently. The gist: if you don’t care about due process for non-citizens, you don’t care about it for citizens.
The reason: if there’s no due process for non-citizens, the government can arrest anyone, claim that they aren’t a citizen, and send them to a detention facility in El Salvador without a court hearing.
At a minimum, if someone says they are a citizen, they have to be entitled to a court hearing on whether that’s correct or not.
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There was a very good analysis that I saw recently. The gist: if you don’t care about due process for non-citizens, you don’t care about it for citizens.
The reason: if there’s no due process for non-citizens, the government can arrest anyone, claim that they aren’t a citizen, and send them to a detention facility in El Salvador without a court hearing.
At a minimum, if someone says they are a citizen, they have to be entitled to a court hearing on whether that’s correct or not.
@Quirt-Evans said in Moving to Canada:
There was a very good analysis that I saw recently. The gist: if you don’t care about due process for non-citizens, you don’t care about it for citizens.
The reason: if there’s no due process for non-citizens, the government can arrest anyone, claim that they aren’t a citizen, and send them to a detention facility in El Salvador without a court hearing.
At a minimum, if someone says they are a citizen, they have to be entitled to a court hearing on whether that’s correct or not.
Yes, Trump likes to overwhelm with illegality it isn't a single move - but on such a scale that makes it difficult for the system or public to fully respond. It is a blitzkrieg of action across a broad front. For example, it seems to have worked with the Emoluments Clause. I'm sure he thinks he could hold up a liquor store without consequence.
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Has the phrase 'Donald Dashers' become familiar in the US?
There have been two newspaper articles this week (Telegraph and Mail) with that title, and I was wondering who coined the term? -
California is not friendly to the lazy and the ignorant. You have to hustle:
The Census Bureau’s 2023 State-to-State Migration Flows report tells the real story. California lost 268,052 residents net — 690,127 moved out to other states, while 422,075 moved in — another year of bleeding talent and taxpayers. Texas gained 133,372 — 611,942 arrivals and 478,570 departures — with 93,970 Californians picking the Lone Star State as their top destination. That’s 15 times the 6,100 "Dashers" who abandoned the nation.
Good old Fox News. 🤮
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This was in yesterday's Telegraph
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-daily-telegraph-your-money/20250329/281663965814049
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