The ugly truth about modern 'anti-fascism'

In contemporary American politics, the American left does not just disagree with conservatives, they believe they are pure evil. And that means that anything goes in interactions.

Hillegass revealed the ugly truth about modern ‘anti-fascism’ – it believes that violence against the right targets is perfectly legitimate. Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. Sign up for his Substack here.

Hillegass believes that DeSantis’s democratically approved higher-education reforms are a form of "fascism" and that the new slate of conservative trustees at New College, including me, are dangerous "sycophants" and "chuckleheads" who have "terrified the students and faculty." Hillegass has been teaching at New College for only three months, but the reforms—designed to improve the struggling college, which ranks dead-last on Florida’s state performance metrics—were too much. 

Earlier this month, he resigned, releasing a dramatic public statement that compared DeSantis with the perpetrators of the Holocaust. "I love New College, but for the good of our nation, I hope the school fails miserably and conspicuously," he wrote. "If I were more patriotic, I would burn the college’s buildings to the ground."