I Just Saw Tim Snyder on The Beat, And Noticed Something Disturbing. [View all]
Tim Snyder, author of On Tyranny, and other books, is a frequent guest on MSNBC. Especially on the Rachel Maddow show. If you look at his CV, it's incredibly impressive. He's one of the great political science thinkers of the age.
His Chyron normally lists him as a professor at Yale, which makes sense, since he's been a professor at Yale since 2001. Tonight, it shows him as a professor at The University of Toronto. I looked it up, and sure enough, Snyder moved from Yale to Toronto in July.
Has the BRAIN DRAIN officially begun again?
There was a brain drain in the 1950s, during the McCarthy Era, when Canada, the UK, and Europe became the beneficiaries of thousands of academics, scientists, and other intellectual who were fleeing right wing populism. And as those brains were fleeing the country, millions of flat-headed oafs were cheering, and saying "good riddance, you leftist pinkos!" It took decades to repair the damage.
Here we go again. It looks like Canada, UK, and Europe is about to get another windfall of vaccine scientists, public health specialists, and various other intellectuals, thanks to THE SAME POLITICAL PARTY. They call themselves the Republican Party, but Republican is the LAST thing they are. They're the Nihilist Party, or the Know Nothing Party, or the John Birch Society. But they have nothing to do with republicanism.