A professor from California is teaching an introductory
course on American politics in which she calls President Donald Trump an
uniformed “white supremacist” who’s just an “orange reality star,” asking
students to delve into how such a candidate could have won the 2016 election.
Dr. Brooke Mascagni of California State University
Dominguez-Hill (CSUDH) is teaching the spring course, “American Political
Institutions 101.” The syllabus describes Trump as “a white supremacist,
misogynist, narcissistic, volatile, belligerent, uninformed, stubborn, failed
businessman and orange reality star to the highest office,” Campus Reform
reported. Mascagni uses the description to explain why the course matters and
indicated students will be tasked with investigating how such a tragedy,
according to Mascagni, could have happened.
“The President of the United States won the 2016 election by
appealing to hatred and bigotry. Just about everyday, a new scandal breaks or
evidence of corruption emerges. Moreover, the Republican Party controls the
executive and legislative branches of government, yet couldn’t manage to keep
the government running on the one year anniversary of Trump’s inauguration,”
the course description stated, according to Campus Reform.
The syllabus also explicitly charges that Russia interfered
with the U.S. electoral process. The course’s description includes a James
Baldwin quote reading, “Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious
enemy justice can have.”
“I felt like I was in a movie because I could not get over
how unbelievably blatant it was. The syllabus was just the iceberg,” a student
who asked to remain anonymous, told Campus Reform. “The majority of the class
was either completely silent, or jaws were dropped.”
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