Professors: “Snowflakes” and “Arnolds”

I’ve been labeled a Snowflake and Libtard by people near and far— including Breitbart readers who exercise their constitutional right to send me dirt-ball messages. I’ve even thought about changing ProfLERoy to ProfSnowflake. It’s just not catchy, and anyway, there are times when my flakes melt—as recently when I praised Attorney General Jeff Sesssions for sending a trial lawyer to Iowa to prosecute a hate crime.

But it’s time to start casting some professors as “Arnolds,” as in Benedict Arnold, America’s first traitor.

Here is an Arnold: Prof. Sam Clovis, formerly of William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa and Morningside College, in Sioux City, Iowa. For many years, he taught classes on business, management, and public policy. He was the Russia-contact whisperer for the suddenly famous George Papadopoulus. He’s likely to be indicted himself, and so, he has withdrawn his nomination to an undersecretary position at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He gets an Arnold because of his sudden leap from academia to the inner circles of Trump Tower while encouraging contacts with Russians who had dirt on Clinton.

Here’s a second Arnold: Prof. Joseph Mifsud. He holds a faculty position in the politics department at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Now, you might say he can’t be an Arnold because he’s not an American. That is all true—but also remember, Benedict Arnold defected to the British Army and forfeited his allegiance to America.

Are there professors who support President Trump but cannot be labeled an Arnold? Yes—one example is Dr. David Shulkin, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Shulkin has a stellar academic record, having served as Chief Medical Officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University Hospital, and the Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital. (Another one of my snowflakes just melted.) He’s terrifically qualified for this important and overlooked Cabinet post—and he’s helping Americans, not Russians.