There is a reason why they are teaching instead of making policy.
Republican presidents have never fared well in the offices of America’s mostly liberal college professors, but President Trump is taking it especially hard, according to a unique survey of “international relations scholars” and political science teachers.
Of 1,157 polled in the Teaching, Research and International Policy project at the College of William and Mary, 93 percent said that under Trump the United States is “less respected.”
What’s more, just 4 percent said that the U.S. is respected at the same level in past years, and a tiny 2 percent said that U.S. gets more respect abroad than previously.
The poll bolsters the criticism of Trump on many campuses, but challenges claims inside the administration that the president has boosted U.S. credibility overseas with his trade policies, stepped up war on terrorism, and outreach to North Korea.