Muslims Fear for the Lives (VIDEO)

Following-up, "'Tolerant' Campus Administrators Exclude Trump Voters."

I attended the "safe places" event yesterday at my college, and two young Muslim women were there. They both wear the hijab, and one reports that's she's been harassed on campus since the election and the other says she's been living in fear for her life, even before the election. She thinks it's going to get worse after the inauguration.

I don't have any reason to discount their experiences. It's ugly all around. All I can say to people, as I've done in my classes, is that everyone deserves respect regardless of their background, religion, or political preferences. I'll continue to do that.

I'm also advocating for more resources on my campus. I think the best way for leftists to get used to the Trump era is for them to feel safe and included. I know media types will keep fanning the flames of division, so as a conservative I'm out to prove them wrong. That's what you have to do. Prove the leftist fuckers wrong.

In any case, at CNN:

'Think BIG and Kick Ass in Business and Life...'

From Donald J. Trump and Bill Zanker, Think BIG and Kick Ass in Business and Life: Make It Happen in Business and Life.

Trump is certainly kicking ass. He said repeatedly, "we're gonna win." And he won.

It's a new era. Leftists are still struggling with the reality.

BONUS: Donald J. Trump, Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America.

House Democrats Pressure Pelosi Amid Party Turmoil

Good she's vile, almost as repulsive as Harry Reid.

At WSJ, "House Democrats Pressure Nancy Pelosi After Trump’s Win":

WASHINGTON—Democrats’ poor showing in last week’s elections has begun to shake the party’s foundations on Capitol Hill, triggering a likely challenge to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi that risks upending more than a decade of continuity within the House Democratic caucus.

One week after Democrats picked up only a fraction of the 20 House seats that they had once expected to gain, dozens of rank-and-file lawmakers at a closed-door meeting called on Mrs. Pelosi to delay leadership elections scheduled for Thursday. By the end of the meeting, she had done so, giving a faction of unhappy Democrats until Nov. 30 to potentially build support for an opposition candidate.

The coming leadership fight, in tandem with a separate battle over who will lead the Democratic National Committee, will expose fault lines within the Democratic Party that have been buried for years, cutting along the lines of race, class, geography and gender...

More.

Ann Coulter: 'Screw You'

Heh.

"Ann Coulter: Appropriate Reaction to Those Calling Bannon Anti-Semitic, Racist: ‘Screw You’" #mustread #feedly https://t.co/awglyfUk8r

— TRUMP & AMERICA WON! (@MOVEFORWARDHUGE) November 16, 2016

Crestfallen Leftists Need to Get a Grip

A great piece, at the National Interest, from James Joyner:

America's electoral panic is out of control. https://t.co/M6gGLt9nbM

— National Interest (@TheNatlInterest) November 16, 2016

Bannon Derangement Syndrome

From Peter Ingemi, at Da Tech Guy's Blog, "15 Million reasons why the left is Demonizing Stephen Bannon."

PREVIOUSLY: "Anti-Bannon Hysteria More Evidence Left Has Lost Touch with American People."

Twitter Suspends Alt-Right Voices, Including Richard Spencer and Pax Dickinson

I think most of these alt-right people are idiots, but the best way to handle them is with ridicule.

Seriously, these people are like a bizarre time warp. Mock them. Ignore them. But don't delete them. That's authoritarian. But then, leftists control the social media space. You can't let leftists control social media, because they'll control the information battlespace.

Every time something like this happens, it reminds why Trump was so right to win, regardless of what I think of the alt-right bigot retreads.

In any case, at the Daily Caller, "Twitter Initiates Mass Purge of Prominent Alt-Right Accounts Following Trump Victory":

Several Twitter users noted that the mass bans could be a result of new reporting features the company added to prevent “hate against a race, religion, gender, or orientation,” as part of a policy change....

Our hateful conduct policy prohibits specific conduct that targets people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease. Today we’re giving you a more direct way to report this type of conduct for yourself, or for others, whenever you see it happening. This will improve our ability to process these reports, which helps reduce the burden on the person experiencing the abuse, and helps to strengthen a culture of collective support on Twitter.

This is clearly political warfare.

If you read the whole thing the piece notes that Trump and his followers have been particularly powerful through social media, so deleting the alt-right is specifically aimed to weaken the movement.

See USA Today as well, "Twitter suspends alt-right accounts."

ICYMI, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land

At Amazon, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right.

And at the New York Review, from Nathaniel Rich, "Inside the Sacrifice Zone."

Jonathan Pie Holy Cow!

My god how'd I miss this guy?!!

This is fantastic!

At Pajamas, "Lefty Reporter Jonathan Pie Gets It, Breaks Down Exactly Why Trump Won."

Or go straight to the video, "President Trump: How & Why..." (Hat Tip: Instapundit, writing at USA Today.)

Asra Nomani: Why I Supported Donald Trump (VIDEO)

This woman is awesome. Brave and awesome.

At the Washington Post, "I’m a Muslim, a woman and an immigrant. I voted for Trump":

A lot is being said now about the “silent secret Trump supporters.”

This is my confession — and explanation: I — a 51-year-old, a Muslim, an immigrant woman “of color” — am one of those silent voters for Donald Trump. And I’m not a “bigot,” “racist,” “chauvinist” or “white supremacist,” as Trump voters are being called, nor part of some “whitelash.”

In the winter of 2008, as a lifelong liberal and proud daughter of West Virginia, a state born on the correct side of history on slavery, I moved to historically conservative Virginia only because the state had helped elect Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States.

But, then, for much of this past year, I have kept my electoral preference secret: I was leaning toward Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Tuesday evening, just minutes before the polls closed at Forestville Elementary School in mostly Democratic Fairfax County, I slipped between the cardboard partitions in the polling booth, a pen balanced carefully between my fingers, to mark my ballot for president, coloring in the circle beside the names of Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence.

After Hillary Clinton called Trump to concede, making him America’s president-elect, a friend on Twitter wrote a message of apology to the world, saying there are millions of Americans who don’t share Trump’s “hatred/division/ignorance.” She ended: “Ashamed of millions that do.”

That would presumably include me — but it doesn’t, and that is where the dismissal of voter concerns about Clinton led to her defeat. I most certainly reject the trifecta of “hatred/division/ignorance.” I support the Democratic Party’s position on abortion, same-sex marriage and climate change.

But I am a single mother who can’t afford health insurance under Obamacare. The president’s mortgage-loan modification program, “HOPE NOW,” didn’t help me. Tuesday, I drove into Virginia from my hometown of Morgantown, W.Va., where I see rural America and ordinary Americans, like me, still struggling to make ends meet, after eight years of the Obama administration.

Finally, as a liberal Muslim who has experienced, first-hand, Islamic extremism in this world, I have been opposed to the decision by President Obama and the Democratic Party to tap dance around the “Islam” in Islamic State. Of course, Trump’s rhetoric has been far more than indelicate and folks can have policy differences with his recommendations, but, to me, it has been exaggerated and demonized by the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, their media channels, such as Al Jazeera, and their proxies in the West, in a convenient distraction from the issue that most worries me as a human being on this earth: extremist Islam of the kind that has spilled blood from the hallways of the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai to the dance floor of the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla.

In mid-June, after the tragic shooting at Pulse, Trump tweeted out a message, delivered in his typical subtle style: “Is President Obama going to finally mention the words radical Islamic terrorism? If he doesn’t he should immediately resign in disgrace!”

Around then, on CNN’s “New Day,” Democratic candidate Clinton seemed to do the Obama dance, saying, “From my perspective, it matters what we do more than what we say. And it mattered we got bin Laden, not what name we called him. I have clearly said we — whether you call it radical jihadism or radical Islamism, I’m happy to say either. I think they mean the same thing.”

By mid-October, it was one Aug. 17, 2014, email from the WikiLeaks treasure trove of Clinton emails that poisoned the well for me. In it, Clinton told aide John Podesta: “We need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL,” the politically correct name for the Islamic State, “and other radical Sunni groups in the region.”

The revelations of multimillion-dollar donations to the Clinton Foundation from Qatar and Saudi Arabia killed my support for Clinton...

More.

Trump Supporters Explain Their Votes

At the Los Angeles Times, "'We're called redneck, ignorant, racist. That's not true': Trump supporters explain why they voted for him."

Bill O'Reilly's Talking Points Memo: The Inclusion Delusion (VIDEO)

An excellent segment, from last night:

Black Mob Beats Chicago Man as Bystanders Scream 'He Voted Trump!' (VIDEO)

Really?

We keep getting all these warnings about harassment and "racist" hate crimes from Donald Trump supporters, but when a black mob beats a guy suspected of voting Trump, it's crickets.

Seriously, that's fucked up.

At the Chicago Tribune, "Bystanders yell anti-Trump taunts as man beaten after car crash."

There's video at the link.

Anti-Bannon Hysteria More Evidence Left Has Lost Touch with American People

I was ignoring this issue, precisely because of the absurd hysterics.

But here's David Horowitz, at FrontPage Magazine:

The losers of the left have worked themselves into such a bizarre hysteria over the fact that they lost the White House that they have lost all connection to reality and are now hyping their most ludicrously paranoid fantasies.

The function of this lunacy is to put off the inevitable moment when they are going to come back to Earth and reckon with the fact that they were horribly wrong and the American people have rejected them. For them, Stephen K. Bannon is the straw man of the hour.

I can’t think of anything stupider than the charge coming from all quarters of the left–including a headline in the pathetically wretched Huffington Post–that Bannon is an anti-Semite. The source? A one sentence claim from an angry ex-wife in divorce court no less, that Bannon didn’t want their kids to go to school with Jews. I find that particularly amusing since Bannon wanted to make a film to celebrate this Jew’s life.

Not to be outdone, CNN, which has been particularly vicious, did a nasty attack on Bannon using another of the thinnest reeds available: This was a headline at Breitbart.com calling Bill Kristol a “renegade Jew.” In fact, neither Breitbart nor Bannon is responsible for that statement. A Jew is. I wrote the article, which was neither requested nor commissioned by Breitbart. And I wrote the headline: “Bill Kristol, Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew.”

I wrote the article when Kristol set out to lead the “Never Trump” movement, after Trump had secured the Republican nomination. I would write it again in a heartbeat. I would write it the same way and with the same headline. Bill Kristol and his friends betrayed the Republican Party, betrayed the American people, and betrayed the Jews when he set out to undermine Trump and elect the criminal Hillary Clinton. Obama and Hillary are supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, the organization that launched the Arab drive to destroy Israel and push its Jews into the sea (that was their slogan).

If Obama and Hillary had their way, Egypt’s leader al-Sisi would be overthrown, the Brotherhood would be back in power, and Israel would be facing a threat from the biggest military power in the Middle East and almost  certainly at war with Islamic terrorists who openly call for the extermination of the Jews.

I have known Steve Bannon for many years. This is a good man. He does not have an Anti-Semitic bone in his body. In his new position as Chief Strategist in the Trump White House, Bannon is the strongest assurance that people who love this country can have in America’s future, the strongest assurance that America is in the hands of people who will give this country a chance to restore itself and defend itself against its enemies at home and abroad.

Far-Left Labor Leaders 'Reach for 1930s Analogy', Attack Trump's Election as Return of the 'Third Reich'

Well, folks have been going Godwin all year, but this is pretty absurd.

At Politico, "Labor leaders, alarmed by Trump, reach for a German analogy."

Labor leaders, alarmed by Trump, reach for a 1930s analogy https://t.co/icP5pBTPdN

— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) November 15, 2016

University of Rochester Professor Forced to Resign After Pro-Trump Facebook Rant

Wow.

Things continue to spiral out of control.

At the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, "UR program head out for Facebook comment to Trump protesters":

He offered to buy bus fare to Canada for University of Rochester protesters of President-elect Donald Trump if they promised to not return.

Now, Ted Pawlicki won't be returning as director of the university's undergraduate computer science program.

Pawlicki resigned under pressure after posting his irreverent remark on a Facebook page promoting a campus demonstration dubbed "Not My America" that was held on Friday.

"A bus ticket from Rochester to Canada is $16," Pawlicki wrote on the page a day before the event. "If this is not your America, then I will pay for your ticket if you promise never to come back."

The comment, which was subsequently deleted, drew swift condemnation from scores of people, some of whom called Pawlicki "a bully" and "tone-deaf" and reported his remarks as a bias incident.

Pawlicki resigned following the demonstration. His departure was first reported by the university's student newspaper, the Campus Times.

"I apologize for my Facebook post of Thursday, November 10th," Pawlicki wrote in an email to computer science students and faculty announcing his resignation on Friday. "These remarks were ill-considered, and I deeply regret any and all hurt they occasioned."

His email went on to state that he decided to step down after consulting with the dean of the engineering school, Wendi Heinzelman, and the chair of the computer science department, Sandhya Dwarkadas...

Well, I guess the Trump era of anti-PC hasn't hit the campuses yet.

Still more.

ADDED: Pawlicki will continue teach at the university as a nontenured lecturer. He was forced to resign as the director of the undergrad computer science program.

Why Did CBS Sit on Clip of Trump Telling Supporters to 'Stop' Harassing Minorities?

Well yeah, "PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW." (That's Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit.)

Here's Trump telling people to cut it out: "Stop It":

'Tolerant' Campus Administrators Exclude Trump Voters

Actually, I'm having the time of my life. Students have been asking me if I'm "okay," thinking I was a Hillary Clinton supporter. That's because I try to teach it down the middle and not let my own ideological predisposition influence my instruction. It's not hard, being a former Democrat, as I know exactly what warms the hearts of progressives, but then if I go too easy on the Democrats the conservative students think I'm "biased."

I guess that's better than being hounded as a conservative, which has of course happened in the past when my blogging has become an issue on campus.

In any case, I'm actually sympathetic to students who are sad, but at this point it's time to buck up and move on. Moping around all depressed about it won't change a thing. Trump's coming and folks better get used to it, or at the least start mobilizing for the next round of elections.

In any case, here's Professor Glenn Reynolds, at USA Today, "'Tolerant' educators exile Trump voters from campus":

Official safe spaces marginalize Republicans as the 'other' and turn universities into a joke.

One of the more amusing bits of fallout from last week’s election has been the safe-space response of many colleges and universities to the election of the “wrong” candidate. But on closer examination, this response isn’t really amusing. In fact, it’s downright mean.

Donald Trump’s substantial victory, when most progressives expected a Hillary Clinton landslide, came as a shock to many. That shock seems to have been multiplied in academe, where few people seem to know any Trump supporters — or, at least, any Trump supporters who’ll admit to it.

The response to the shock has been to turn campuses into kindergarten. The University of Michigan Law School announced a ”post-election self-care” event with “food" and "play,” including “coloring sheets, play dough (sic), positive card-making, Legos and bubbles with your fellow law students.” (Embarrassed by the attention, UM Law scrubbed the announcement from its website, perhaps concerned that people would wonder whether its graduates would require Legos and bubbles in the event of stressful litigation.)

Stanford emailed its students and faculty that psychological counseling was available for those experiencing “uncertainty, anger, anxiety and/or fear” following the election. So did the University of Michigan’s Flint campus.

Meanwhile, even the Ivy League wasn’t immune, with the University of Pennsylvania (Trump’s alma mater) creating a post-election safe space with puppies and coloring books:

Student Daniel Tancredi reported that the people who attended were “fearful” about the results of the election.

“For the most part, students just hung out and ate snacks and made small talk,” Tancredi told "The College Fix." “Of course, that was in addition to coloring and playing with the animals.”

Keep reading.

Funny enough, I'm going to attend a "safe spaces" lunchtime meeting tomorrow, mostly because I want to make sure students get accurate information, particularly on immigration (deportations could increase, although the "build the wall" might not play out in concrete policy right off the bat).

More on that later.

Divided Conservatives and the Donald Trump Era (VIDEO)

Dana Loesch is at the video, but see Max Boot, and others, at LAT, "Conservatives ponder the future of the GOP under Trump."

It was a rude awakening for Mr. Boot in particular.

From Brexit to Trump

Britain's Douglas Murray nails it, at Foreign Affairs, "Giving the Elites a Hard Kick":

The two big electoral events of 2016—Brexit and the election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president—were seemingly conjoined from the moment the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. That historic day in June was a sign that American voters might also choose, once given the chance, to give their ruling elites as hard a kick as possible, for as many reasons as possible. And just as the European Commission, a symbol of elitism, became the target for the British public, so too did Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton become a target for the American public on election day.

The two political upheavals are united in that both societies include a class of people whose job prospects have been wrecked by the outsourcing of labor, people for whom globalization is a problem rather than an opportunity. Perhaps the most important similarity, at least in the long term, will be that both events raise the possibility of a new left-right hybrid in domestic politics: one that learns from the years of lax immigration and the years of lax economics. This hybrid acknowledges the failures of right-wing free-market economics, favoring forms of protectionism over internationalism in trade policies; it also ignores some of the restraining shibboleths of left and right in recent years, instead recognizing legitimate fears of economic competition from abroad and the social concerns that immigration can bring...

More at that top link.