Lefty Yale professor who fled US over Trump now scolds Canadians who want to visit US as ‘naive,’ ‘traitors’

Leftist American former Yale professor Jason Stanley is revered in the bowels of leftist academia. He once felt protected at Yale, until Trump retaliated against the Marxist takeover of campuses. Now he’s escaped to Canada to his safe space at the University of Toronto, where he’s on a roll. “Yale professor who fled US because of Trump is now scolding Canadians who still want to visit or move to America,” by Alexa Cimino, Daily Mail, January 14, 2026:

A Yale professor who fled the United States because of Donald Trump‘s presidency has scolded Canadians who expressed that they want to visit or move to America.

Jason Stanley said that Canadians who tell him they’d like to move to the US are verging on ‘traitorous’ because the country has become ‘fascist’ under Trump.

Stanley, who now teaches at the University of Toronto’s Munk School after fleeing Yale in 2025, urged Canada to adopt what he called a ‘robust nationalism,’ rooted in rejecting what he described as America’s new values of cruelty and intolerance.

The Syracuse-born professor complained that many Canadians still talk about American universities, travel and economic opportunities ‘as if economic considerations could make up for rising white supremacy and fascism.’

He gushed about how free and democratic Canada is – while warning his new countrymen: ‘America is not your friend.’

Stanley wrote in the Toronto Star: ‘The US has been veering toward fascism for some time. That is why my family and I decided to leave for Canada last March.

‘Yet in my short time here, I have observed an alarming level of naïveté about what is happening south of the border.

‘We are extraordinarily privileged to live in this country. Yet I have spoken to Canadians who say they would rather live in the US – even now. To me, this verges on traitorous.’…

It is hard leftists such as Jason Stanley who spawned the revolutionary Antifa.

As Stanley ruthlessly excoriates Trump’s leadership in overblown terms, he ignores tangible threats facing America, including calls from al-Qaeda and ISIS to attack America; longtime calls from Iran to infiltrate the North American continent and launch attacks; the violation of America’s borders and out-of-control migration, which pose documented threats to America’s national security; and organized crime networks, cartels, and jihadists, which have infiltrated America (and the West in general) via open borders. Stanley also ignores Muslim Brotherhood operatives and the pro-Hamas cult that disrupted American campuses, with the Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei egging them on, hailing pro-Hamas U.S. college students and applauding their “standing on the right side of history.” Last but not least, Stanley is understandably silent regarding the Marxist hijacking of American campuses and their virulent opposition to freedom of thought, debate and free speech, as he is part of that enterprise.

Stanley is a cardboard cutout of every leftist elitist. He was featured in Yale Daily News awhile back for his vulgar response to a keynote address at the Society of Christian Philosophers that was disapproving of homosexuality. He wrote: “F— those a–holes. Seriously.” Following the backlash he received, he superficially conceded: “My ‘potty words’ were taken completely out of context. ‘Potty words’ are bad, but because I’m a Yale professor, I can’t use them anymore?” Stanley never addressed his egregious and unacademic disrespect for an opposing view, beyond his “potty words.” Stanley went on to call the backlash “horrific,” “citing his fear for his family.” Really?

Stanley has referenced “the design of his powerful enemies,” among which he identifies the Templeton Foundation, which he accuses of “disproportionate funding for religious philosophy and negligence towards studies on racism or homophobia.” So his comfort level was disrupted in America, despite the fact that his views generally harmonized with those of Yale culture. A recent study found that the Yale faculty had “finally purged every Republican donor from its ranks. While 98 percent of the political donations went to Democrats, not a single professor could be found who gave to a single Republican candidate.” A more balanced Yale professor of history and religious studies, Carlos Eire, “expressed dismay by the imbalance,” stating: “It’s true, there is very very, very little intellectual diversity at Yale and at most institutions of higher learning when it comes to politics…Academics in the US, Canada and Europe have been leaning left for the past three or four generations.”

The New York Post summed it up:

American colleges used to pride themselves on their commitment to free speech and free inquiry. That’s the only way learning takes place, we thought, and you’d have to go back to the Dark Ages to find people who disagreed. Only now the Dark Ages have returned, with college speech codes, barking-mad left-wing student mobs and faculties that refuse to hire open conservatives.

Trump signed an executive order in 2019 that would authorize stripping federal funds to colleges that suppress student free-speech rights. In his second term, Trump doubled down on several offending campuses, particularly Columbia University and Harvard.

As Yale News noted: “Since President Donald Trump began his second term in January, his administration has waged an aggressive campaign to exert influence over elite universities, freezing billions of dollars in federal research funding, threatening accreditations and pressuring institutions into settlements that reshape campus policy.”

Fear of Trump caused Stanley to hightail it out of Yale, in fact, out of America altogether, because the Trump administration was taking free speech and pride in American traditions seriously. This proved intimidating for Stanley, as the Trump administration dared to question whether key academic institutions were aligned with American values of the freedom of speech and the rule of law.

In the view of leftist ideologues such as Stanley, supporting DEI is crucial. This generally includes “gender-affirming care” (for youngsters), correct gender pronouns (enforced), acceptance of the climate change mythology, acceptance of the grifting Black Lives Matter movement, advocacy of open-door, unvetted migration policies, support for the suppression of the freedom of speech, and support for the “globalize the intifada” and “resistance” movements as “freedom” movements. To reject these positions meant you were a “white supremacist,” a “racist,” and/or a “fascist.”

Leftist elitist ideologues from the halls of academia have been intentionally churning out young indoctrinated social justice warriors that have come to define American academia.

These ideologues are extremely limited in their understanding. Take, for example, the murderous regime of Iran, which is mass slaughtering its own people; the Somalia-Minnesota nexus, which led to the discovery that the Minnesota taxpayer had become the largest funder of the Somali jihad terror group al-Shabab; and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), which has infiltrated America by the MB’s own admission, as well as Canada. The MB also remains a source of conflict, including in many Muslim countries, but what does Stanley know or care about these issues? His opposition to “fascism” is based upon the narrative of the “white supremacists” and “racists” versus the “oppressed” minorities. Meanwhile, he dismisses the evolution and generosity of Western countries that made them attractive to migrants, that is, those who understood the responsibility that came with immigration; and genuine refugees as defined by the Geneva Convention. Stanley’s concern is instead for the illegals crashing American borders; migrants aiming to supplant the West with Sharia law; and migrants who are working for cartels and human trafficking empires. Leftists have erased every distinction and lump all migrants into one single group, which, in their view, Trump and other “white supremacists” who hate all migrants have rejected. They disregard what these groups may bring to Western society.

As Trump stands firm in his protection of American values, interests and national security, Stanley calls such protection “fascist.”

Jason Stanley has run to leftist-governed Canada while he completely dismisses the scores of visible minorities (including Venezuelans and Iranians) who support Trump and the rule of law. “Venezuelans believe Donald Trump has offered them a better future” according to The Economist. And CBS News reported on a new survey that showed strong support for the U.S. role in Venezuela after Maduro’s removal. In fact, “90% of Venezuelans inside the country say they feel grateful to President Donald Trump for removing Nicolás Maduro from power on January 3.”

And according to Pew Research:

The share of Trump voters who are Hispanic, Black, Asian or another race has roughly doubled since his 2016 election, from 11% to 20%, mostly because Hispanic voters now make up a larger share of his voters (10%, up from 6% in 2016).

The loathsome, pseudo-intellectual mentality of rabid leftists such as Stanley, with his oversized ego, is inherently “white supremacist” itself — exclusionary and dismissive. Demographics don’t matter, except when visible minorities are portrayed as victims and needed for manipulation in identity politics. Stanley presumes to tell all Canadians (white and visible minority alike) how to think about America. His ilk are far too plentiful in Canada, or he wouldn’t have a platform at all. As a social justice warrior, specializing in fascism, he should be advocating for the protesters in Iran.

As Stanley attempts to squeeze a complex world into his leftist elitist worldview, his plan is to churn out more leftist lunatics on campus. Now Canada is stuck with him, in his newly minted position as chair in American studies at Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, polluting the University of Toronto with even more with Marxist propaganda. U of T already has its Jackman Humanities Institute, which runs a group that connects “scholars across the (broadly-defined) Marxist tradition, including anti-fascism, anti-imperialism, critical race theory, and cultural studies.” A Revolutionary Communist Party Student Chapter is also active at U of T. Stanley is right at home with his new peers as he brazenly talks down to Canadians. And he even has some company from Yale: “Outspoken Fascism Scholars Leave Yale for Canada.”