Yale Professor Compares Trump to a ‘Mob Boss’ in Making Cabinet Appointments
Left-wingers like Stanley in academia still can’t believe that Trump not only won, but by a larger than predicted margin than most pollsters pollsters had predicted.
Yale University professor Jason Stanley compared President-elect Donald Trump’s process on his cabinet appointments to the mafia during a recent appearance on MSNBC.
Stanley, who teaches philosophy, appeared on Ayman hosted by Ayman Mohyeldin about Trump’s interview with Kristin Welker on NBC News Sunday and focused on the cabinet selections Trump had made to date.
Mohyeldin brought up the nomination of Trump loyalist Kash Patel to replace Christopher Wray ay the FBI which has raised some eyebrows considering that Wray’s term didn’t end until 2027 and that Trump appointed him to replace James Comey during his first term as president.
Stanley said that Trump was behaving like a “mob boss” and was following a “familiar strategy” as seen in “gangster films” with his selections.
If you want to understand what is going on, think about the mafia. This is the same thing. And again, the literature, historical literature on dictators talks about the relationship. Hannah Ran talks about this between the fascist leaders, say, and the mob boss. So, you hire the people who are going to… who already know what you want. It is a very familiar strategy we all know from gangster films.
I’m very relieved that they are not targeting the people who wrote statements for the January 6th Committee like myself, but, you know, it is completely — this is all par for the course, targeting opposition politicians and the media. And I worry that it’s being normalized by the media. They are just reporting on it as if it’s normal.
Left-wingers like Stanley in academia still can’t believe that Trump not only won, but by a larger than predicted margin than most pollsters had predicted and his remarks are indicative of another round of Trump Derangement Syndrome has already taken hold before Trump’s inauguration.
Don Irvine
Donald Irvine is the chairman of of Accuracy in Academia (AIA), a non-profit research group reporting on bias in education. Irvine follows his father’s legacy, Reed Irvine, to critically analyze the liberal media’s bias and brings over thirty years of media analysis experience. He has published countless blog posts and articles on media bias, in context of current events, and he has been interviewed by many news media outlets during his professional career. He currently hosts a livestream weekly show on AIA’s Facebook page which discusses current events.
Irvine graduated from the University of Maryland and rose up the ranks to become chairman of Accuracy in Media until his transition to AIA.
He resides in the suburbs around the nation’s capital and is a proud father and grandfather.
