W. Bryan Hubbard

That's at scale within the United States.

And the degree to which dogma can thwart evolution is 100% right on.

And I just use my own self as an example.

I was a child of Reagan's America.

I can remember I was about five years old when he and President Carter had their first presidential debate in 1980.

President Reagan was like the mother goose to the gosling.

He just imprinted on me.

And whereas other young boys had pictures of Joe Montana and Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson all over their rooms, mine was wallpapered with Ronald Reagan.

I was the president of the Teenage Republicans in high school.

I wrote him fan letters all the time.

He actually replied to one, and I put it in a notebook.

a frame in my room that was written on my birthday.

I was president of the college Republicans at George Mason University, and I mean, I aim to be the king of conservative Republican conformity.

That was my whole mission in life.

And I used to joke that when people said, well, how did you get to this?

And what do you think about the fact that you're talking about it and you're so zealous in your advocacy?

I would kind of make a half statement and say, well, if 25-year-old me could come and see 50-year-old me, he would look and say, what in the world happened to you?

And I would kind of yuck and yuck and laugh about it.

Well, here's the answer.

If 25-year-old me could come back and look at 50-year-old me and say, what happened to you?