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OPINION: A Princeton University student newspaper story actually did a good job of analyzing Trump’s victory

Some scholars at Princeton University actually do have a good sense of why Donald Trump won a second term in the White House.

While professors have sought to blame sexism, racism, misogyny, and other liberal buzzwords, some academics realize the Democratic Party has a problem with elitism.

“Visiting Lecturer for Politics Darren Geist ’05 highlighted the ‘disconnect’ between ‘the sentiment in elite and academic institutions’ and ‘much of America,’” according to The Daily Princetonian.

“I think that the election results tell us that a lot of voters have dissatisfaction with elites,” political science Professor Hye You told the student newspaper.

“A party based almost exclusively on college-educated liberals is a permanent minority party and cannot reliably win the White House and Senate,” political scientist Charles Cameron said. “The Democrats must find a way to get some blue-collar men and rural voters back into the party.”

Professors also criticized the Democratic Party for installing Kamala Harris as the nominee without any votes.

“The Democratic Party could have benefited a lot by actually having a primary,” Professor You said. “If there had been an opportunity to build momentum and refine policy through this primary, I think the Democrats might have anticipated a better result than they achieved yesterday.”

Being Princeton professors, they can be forgiven for some of their fearmongering about a Trump presidency. “Given that Trump doesn’t have any re-election incentives, he might actually implement more extreme policies that the public does not want,” Professor You predicted.

“Taiwan’s days are likely numbered. The right-wing in Israel has carte blanche. Iran will move expeditiously to acquire nukes,” Professor Cameron and his class predicted, as reported by the student newspaper.

Common sense has not trickled down to all Princeton students, however.

Freshman Charlie Yale called on his peers to stand against “fascism.”

“Today, tomorrow, and every single day until Trump no longer holds office, it is every Princetonian’s moral imperative to prevent his administration from harming the institutions he wields and the people that they affect,” Yale wrote for the student newspaper.

“The coming Trump administration threatens the American way of life,” Yale said, citing “Project 2025,” a big ol’ policy book from the Heritage Foundation and other conservatives. Project 2025 is actually a form of corporate welfare, because while the Heritage Foundation has plenty of money (thank you by the way), it operates rent-free in liberals’ minds.

What is this “way of life” that is under attack?

It means removing bureaucrats, “promising to ban abortion,” “mass deportations,” and “roll[ing] back trans rights.” Yale, the student, is also worried about the apparent goal to ban pornography.

Oh.

Here’s a tip kid – girls don’t find it attractive when you talk about your fears of porn being banned.

Learning about what actually happens in politics and shutting off MSNBC for a few days can, however, be attractive.

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