Saturday, January 17, 2026

Nobody Wants to Study Politics Since Trump

"I sometimes feel embarrassed to walk into my political science classrooms. The students that I'm talking to, this is their whole conscious adult life. College freshmen right now were 8 years old when Trump walked down the escalator. And so their whole conscious experience of politics as a sentient, quasi-adult human is this nightmare politics that never ends. People don't necessarily want to study politics under those conditions, and I can't blame them." -- political scientist David Faris

Comments

And now everyone wants to study abnormal psychology.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-17 01:52 PM

And now everyone wants to study abnormal psychology.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-17 01:52 PM | Reply | Flag: Quip of the Week

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-17 02:06 PM

Nobody Wants to Study Politics Since Trump

No more political science majors?!?!? Does this mean I'm gonna have to pour my own coffee at Starbucks?!?

#3 | Posted by censored at 2026-01-17 05:20 PM

It means Might Makes Right, and "Community Organizers" get sent to Gulag.

Every child who grew up in a home where the father says, in my house you live by my rules, already understands it.

"In this house, Columbus is a hero, end of story!"

Don't need no fancy "political science" degree to figure out how that works.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-17 05:30 PM

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