Professor Tells Students: A Brain-affecting Parasite May Cause Support for Trump, Brexit

By Selwyn Duke

Liberals have for years presented “studies” purporting to show that some kind of mental or character defect, or just plain ignorance and stupidity, explain conservative ideology. Now a professor at a Cambridge University constituent college has presented a different theory: A parasite that can cause severe mental disorders and behavioral problems may explain why people voted for President Trump and Brexit.

The academic, an evolutionary zoologist at England’s Trinity Hall named Dr. Robert Asher, implicates the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, long known to affect cats. 

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