The College Fix, the campus watchdog, is busily compiling post-election stories from around the country. One example, from the University of South Carolina, is an English instructor complaining only “educated” people voted for Kamala Harris.
“There is a reason why educated people vote blue,” Suenna Smith wrote on X one day after Trump’s win. “What we’re seeing is the uneducated population of America holding the rest of the country hostage.”
Matt Lamb, associate editor of the Fix, tells AFN the instructor’s insult was particularly bad considering her profession.
“It’s particularly concerning when it’s an instructor or a professor,” Lamb says, “because they are supposed to encourage debate and encourage thinking about these topics.”
Contrary to Smith’s accusation about dumb Trump voters, the public now knows Trump received a bigger popular vote than Kamala Harris – a record unseen by a Republican candidate since the 1980s. That historic turnout includes black and Hispanic voters, and suburban women, according to exit polling.
Approximately half of American voters aged 18 to 29 chose Trump over Harris, according to polling by The Associated Press. That polling, called VoteCast, surveyed 120,000 voters nationwide.
Trump also flipped 10 counties to red in liberal California and increased red counties in Democrat strongholds such as New York and New Jersey.
As is typical with many liberals, however, voters must be wrong, and terrible people, if they don’t believe like them. That was the message from Alexa Veenema, a Michigan State professor. In an email to students after the election, she assumed her students “must be as devastated as I am” by the Nov. 5 election results.
“It is unbelievable to me,” Veenema wrote, “that so many Americans are so utterly naïve and would fall for this and support misogyny, racism, xenophobia, hate, and violence.”
Reacting to the professor’s email, conservative activist Janice Crouse says Trump has become a “monster” to the Far Left. That warped view of him is “scary” to consider, she says, because students are being influenced and believe what they are told.
“I think it was just an example of the way our society is so deranged,” Crouse concludes.
Veenema is a behavioral neuroscience professor at Michigan State, according to a related story by Campus Reform.
Behavioral neuroscience is a study of how the human nervous system, especially the brain, influences emotions and behavior.
At least one university staff member has been punished for going too far with the post-election comments. Leonard Seratto, an administrator at the University of Oregon, was put on leave after he posted a profanity-filled rant on social media.
“If you are so sad about your groceries being expensive, get a better [expletive] paying job, do better in life. Get a [expletive] education,” Serrato added. “Do something, because you are [expletive] stupid, and I hope you go jump off of a [expletive] bridge.”
Reacting to Serrato's comments, conservative writer Laurie Higgins points out he openly suggested Trump supporters should commit suicide.
"No one who would wish that on their political opponent," Higgins tells AFN, "deserves to be working in a university."
