{"id":82437,"date":"2025-05-18T07:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T06:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=82437"},"modified":"2025-05-18T08:49:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T07:49:57","slug":"the-mail-thinks-fleeing-fascism-is-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/18\/the-mail-thinks-fleeing-fascism-is-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Mail thinks fleeing fascism is ‘woke’"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, the Daily Fail<\/del> Mail<\/a> featured this profoundly enlightened headline:<\/p>\n

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As they noted:<\/p>\n

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Three liberal professors at Yale University said they're jumping ship from the United States because the country is headed toward fascism under\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and even compared it to being on the Titanic.<\/p>\n

Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley are all professors at the Ivy League institution, with Stanley already having told MSNBC in April\u00a0that he's running away from America<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Now, the other two are bolting as well, with the trio set to take up new jobs at the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tim Snyder needs no introduction or explanation to readers here.<\/p>\n

Jason Stanley is the author of one of the best books on fascism I have read.<\/p>\n

Marci Shore, a history professor at Yale, is the author of \u201cThe Ukrainian Night,\u201d about the Ukrainian revolution.<\/p>\n

But, apparently, according to The Mail, the paper that supported Hitler until the moment when it became no longer possible for it to do so, fleeing fascism is 'woke', when all term means is that those accused of it are people who care.<\/p>\n

As the New York Times reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Professor Shore, who has spent two decades writing about the history of authoritarianism in Central and Eastern Europe, is leaving because of what she sees as the sharp regression of American democracy. \u201cWe\u2019re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can\u2019t sink,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can\u2019t sink.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I completely understand.<\/p>\n

And as the Mail itself is forced to report:<\/p>\n

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Threatening to leave America has been a hobby horse of the elites and wealthy since Trump's first term.<\/p>\n

Many have been\u00a0flocking to exclusive pockets of Britain in record numbers in a desperate bid to escape life under Trump.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The so-called 'Donald Dash' has been backed up by\u00a0Home Office<\/a><\/span>\u00a0figures this week which\u00a0revealed that applications for UK citizenship soared in the last quarter of 2024, rising 40 per cent year on year.<\/p>\n

In fact more than 6,100 US citizens applied last year, the most since records began two decades ago and 26 per cent more than in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No doubt they are all woke as well, as well as being exactly the sort of migrants The Mail does not want here - along with all the rest.<\/p>\n

Our world is going mad. Long may Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley point that out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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