Christopher Rufo
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 7 Sep
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When you get the government in between the parents and children, history suggests that terrible things can happen.
Yeah. And my favorite part is that the beginning, it says, according to research. But if you actually take a look at the research, you dig into the footnotes, it is like the most shockingly, or maybe not shockingly, shoddy garbage imaginable. And yet this idea that babies kind of come out of the womb with a clan hood is just so farcical and ridiculous. And yet,
It's captured the minds of people with PhDs. These people who run these programs are PhDs, mostly in education. And so I think that is the perfect example of someone completely suspending their common sense, suspending any experience of children. Children are incredible at that age. Uh, they're, they're, they're open to so many different people. They're open to everything. Um, uh,
But also how ideology can really poison you. And so the story is not really about these education centers themselves. They should be gone and they will be gone. But the story is that we have an educational class in this country that is susceptible to this ideological poison and then becomes fanatical about it when they press it onto our kids. That's the most important thing.
And so wherever you are in the country, if you're in a red state, if you're in Tennessee or Florida or Idaho, you're not safe from these ideologies because these centers and these national ideologies are trying to find a foothold everywhere.
Yeah, that's right. And there are already encouraging signs. Of course, Elon's Doge team is going in and eliminating contracts. But the president has greater ambitions. He's called for the abolition of the Department of Education. There is a lot of debate over how he can do that, how far he can take executive action, where he'll need the legislature to actually come through.
But there's really a simple three-part plan. You spin off the federal financial aid for universities into a separate portfolio that you can then privatize down the line. You continue to spend the money for K-12 schools, special ed, lunch programs by directly block-granting it to the states, so states have greater oversight over how those dollars are used.
And then you just absolutely crush, demolish, and then salt over all of the quote unquote research, which is really just ideological production. And then you never look back because there is no good that's happening from these programs. You can save the programs that for now are gonna have to be passed through, but we cannot let this survive another four years.
It survived under Trump, it survived under Bush, it survived under Reagan. Now is the time Americans are finally aware of what's happening with public schools and these left-wing ideologies. We have to capitalize on the momentum and actually get this job done.
Yeah, it's been a spectacular week. And we've been working on this campaign to abolish DEI, to reform higher education, to get rid of trans ideology in America's institutions for five years. And it feels like a point of culmination. And I spent the interim after the president's electoral victory, before he took office,
trying to talk to people, trying to get organized, trying to set the stage for reform. And they've taken everything to the next level. I mean, the sheer scope and scale of what the president has done and what his admin members have done. This is a totally different administration than Trump 1.0. It's probably the most effective first week of a presidency in my lifetime.
And I know for a fact that there's more to come.
Yeah, that's right. And I think this has been a learning process for me and for the right as a movement. I think it started with President Trump's executive order banning critical race theory in late 2020. Then the shift of politics went to Florida. Governor DeSantis really took anti-woke ideas and figured out how to turn them into anti-woke policies and administration.
And then this learning over the last four years has prepared Trump's team. And look, these are people who have spent the last few years waiting for this day, waiting for this moment. I was in policy planning sessions three years ago where they were talking about slicing Lyndon Johnson's executive order 11246 on affirmative action. And this comes such a long way.
So we're now in the implementation phase. And I think that this is just the beginning.
And while, yes, executive orders can come and go, I think there will be a legislative component coming in the next few months to try to entrench some of these ideas, entrench some of these policies through the legislature, through Congress, so that they're perhaps more permanent and certainly more difficult to overturn in the future.
Yeah, it's really good executive management. And I think that story in particular, this idea that you could send an email to all federal employees saying, respond to this email with resign in the subject line and you're gone, is something that was unimaginable, not just in Trump's first term, but really in the first term of any previous president. And I think this is really...
the stroke of Elon Musk's influence. This is the kind of thing that Elon Musk demonstrated when he took over Twitter. He fired 80% of the staff and improved the product. They're taking that ethos into the Oval Office and into the White House. This is part of the New Right Coalition. They've brought in some of the tech leaders, There's, of course, squabbling on issues.
Tech leaders want concessions on, for example, H1B visas. But on the bright side of this partnership where we can all agree is a kind of ruthless administration, downsizing the government, going after the deep state, dismantling the permanent bureaucracy.
And that's something that I think really requires an audacious kind of leadership that Musk has demonstrated and now Trump has learned from and is demonstrating in government.
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