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Why I Quit the Dems, and You Should To! · Clay & Buck Recommendations

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  Speaker 1: This book. You can't buy it in most bookstores. I
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  Speaker 1: was the number one New York Times bestseller for my book, Chutzpah.
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  Speaker 1: But you can't buy this book in bookstores. You have
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  Speaker 1: to go on Amazon and buy it on Amazon. Bookstores
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  Speaker 1: will not sell books by people who are not Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: I can't speak at Harvard University. I was the most
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  Speaker 1: popular speaker there for years and years and years and years.
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  Speaker 1: But no president of the university or dean or professor
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  Speaker 1: will invite me today, with a few exceptions, to speak
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  Speaker 1: about my conversion from Democrat to Republican. Today, the marketplace
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  Speaker 1: of ideas is shut closed at places like Harvard. Meritocracy
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  Speaker 1: is dead at Harvard. Today, we're seeing everything is identity politics.
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  Speaker 1: Ideas are judged not on their merits, but on which
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  Speaker 1: side they're on. People are admitted to the university, both
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  Speaker 1: as students and faculty members, based on their identity rather
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  Speaker 1: than on the meritocracy. And so I think we're seeing
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  Speaker 1: a decline of meritocracy and an increase in mediocrity at
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  Speaker 1: many American universities, including Harvard. And that's a shame because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when I was at Harvard for 50 years,
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  Speaker 1: it was a great university and people were judged on
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  Speaker 1: the merits. That's no longer the case.