The reaction of Middle East studies academics to Donald Trump's presidential election win has been nothing short of hysterical. Campus Watch West Coast representative Cinnamon Stillwell and CW contributor Michael Lumish chronicle the ongoing nervous breakdown at American Thinker:
Nowhere was the hysteria, panic, and fearmongering attending Donald Trump's win in the 2016 presidential election felt more strongly than on college campuses -- and Middle East studies academics were no exception. Rather than acknowledging that justified concern over increasing terrorism in the U.S. was a strong factor, they dismissed Trump voters as angry, fearful, ignorant, "Islamophobic" white supremacists.