Three liberal professors at Yale University said they’re jumping ship from the United States because the country is headed toward fascism under Donald Trump and even compared it to being on the Titanic.
Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley are all professors at the Ivy League institution, with Stanley already having told MSNBC in April that he’s running away from America.
Now, the other two are bolting as well, with the trio set to take up new jobs at the University of Toronto.
The three released a video for the New York Times Opinion section where Stanley led them in saying he wants ‘Americans to realize that this is a democratic emergency.’
‘We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,’ Shore added.
‘And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.’
Snyder claims he is not leaving because of Trump or a slide towards fascism, ‘but that would be a reasonable thing to do.’
He claims he is largely leaving to support his family and teach at a university where he can host ‘conversations about freedom.’
Three liberal professors at Yale University – including Jason Stanley (pictured) – say they’re jumping ship from the United States, saying the country is headed toward fascism under Donald Trump and even comparing it to being on the Titanic
Marci Shore (pictured), Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley are all professors at the Ivy League institution
Stanley directly takes aim at Trump, believing he will retaliate against dissenters.
‘I want to do my work without the fear that I will be punished for my words,’ he said.
Shore cited previous fascist regimes and said that the lesson is ‘to get out sooner than later.’
Stanley advised that Americans ‘set up centers of resistance in places of relative safety.’
They specifically cited college students being removed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for radical anti-Israel views.
Stanley, an American citizen who’s at no risk of deportation, previously explained how he’s accepted a job offer at the Canadian college as a result, eager to escape with his family.
The Ivy League processor went on to chide rival schools like Columbia, for what he billed as bowing to Trump’s crackdown.
On Friday, the school’s interim president resigned from her role just one week, seemingly in protest of its decision to change several policies to satisfy Trump administration demands.
Snyder claims he is not leaving because of Trump or a slide towards fascism, ‘but that would be a reasonable thing to do’
The three released a video for the New York Times Opinion section where Stanley led the Yale professors in saying he wants ‘Americans to realize that this is a democratic emergency’
‘This crackdown, Columbia’s capitulation to this, is a grave sign about the future of academic freedom,’ he told Cabrera on the set of her eponymous show.
‘Hauling people off the street and sending them to Louisiana prisons like they did at Tufts University for co-authoring op-eds in the student newspaper’ is another sign, he continued.
Stanley had been referring to recently arrested Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained last Tuesday by ICE officials outside Boston, off-campus.
Threatening to leave America has been a hobby horse of the elites and wealthy since Trump’s first term.
Many have been flocking to exclusive pockets of Britain in record numbers in a desperate bid to escape life under Trump.
The so-called ‘Donald Dash’ has been backed up by Home Office figures this week which revealed that applications for UK citizenship soared in the last quarter of 2024, rising 40 per cent year on year.
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.
Celebrities including Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi, designer Tom Ford and Hollywood star couple Ryan Gosling and his wife Eva Mendes are among those who have fled America for the UK.
Shore (pictured left) cited previous fascist regimes and said that the lesson is ‘to get out sooner than later’
Other high-profile stars including actress America Ferrera are rumoured to have relocated to the UK. The Ugly Betty star was allegedly spotted checking out schools in west London – after saying she wanted to leave the US when Trump was elected.
Trump’s election victory cemented Ugly Betty star Ferrera’s decision to flee the US in search of the ‘best opportunities’ for her children in the UK.
‘America is sick that Donald Trump is President again,’ an insider told DailyMail.com exclusively last November. ‘She is devastated that Kamala lost. She thought the country she lived in was better than that.’
Others have quit for the benefit of their children, including Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes, while others including British Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner has hinted at ‘getting the f*** out of America due to gun violence and the overturning of Roe v Wade.
American actress Elizabeth Olsen, who lived in Richmond, south-west London, with her rock star husband Robbie Arnett during Covid, said in November that she thinks she is ‘supposed to live in England’.
She told The Standard: ‘I don’t think I’m supposed to live in the United States. London feels like a place you can work very hard and diligently, and you can stop, and you can be in parks and nature.’
She added: ‘I know every country has its faults, but anytime you leave the United States, your nervous system shifts. You’re not consciously preparing for a random act of violence to occur.’
British actress Minnie Driver said last July that she had returned to the UK after 27 years of living in Los Angeles, and would not return to a Republican state if Trump was re-elected – although she would be ‘somewhat insulated’ in California.
Home Office data shows applications by Americans have risen steadily since the end of 2022. They surged in the last quarter of 2024 in particular, rising 40 per cent year on year to about 1,700.
Overall, applications for UK citizenships were up 6 per cent last year to 251,000, another record.
