Christopher Rufo
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230 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 7 Sep
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Yeah, that's part of the process. And I watched this up close in Florida as we were doing some reforms in K through 12 schools and higher education in Florida. There were so many instances of malicious compliance from school administrators, school librarians, university officials. And I think that the governor, Governor DeSantis, developed a pretty strong formula.
It was to reiterate the principle, to have his rapid response communications team rebut the errors and lies and manipulations in real time, and then really just bulldoze through. Because he told me something very interesting one time as we were reforming one of the universities. He said, look, You're going to get a thousand negative news articles. And I have your back.
This is the right thing to do. And the voters can see through this. You just have to stand tough. And that's exactly what he did. He won reelection by 20 points. And I think his model of how to handle malicious compliance is the right one. I would only add one small addition that I think could be relevant to the Trump administration.
Find the individuals who are responsible for malicious compliance, terminate their employment, and make them an example so that you disincentivize malicious compliance further down the line.
This is important because the federal government is so large, even a single instance of malicious compliance can deal damage, and you need to really reset the incentives so that people not only follow the executive orders, but they do so in good faith.
Yeah, I think, look, I think the president has made incredible progress on DEI. He's going to be opening up investigations into discriminatory DEI programs at companies, school districts, universities. And so I think that the abolished DEI movement is in really good shape. Where I think we can make sustained progress that will require more than an executive order is in higher education reform.
Look, America spends billions of dollars a year subsidizing monolithically left-wing universities that produce these ideologies.
And so I think that we need to have the Department of Education team, once we have the confirmation of Secretary McMahon, I think we really need to start working together to reform higher education, to put pressure on these institutions, not only through policy, but financial pressure, and pressure on how status and prestige are distributed within the higher education world.
We have to incentivize scholarship, disincentivize left-wing activism. And I think that we can do this through the various carrots and sticks that the Secretary of Education has available. This is something I'm going to be working on moving forward. And I think the time and the moment is right.
If we let this happen to Miss Casey.
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