Heh, NYT just had an interview with Rufo. His frankness is...not refreshing, but "bracing" might work. He admits, for example, that Conservatives can't staff education departments because there aren't enough Conservatives who want to be in academic administration so the only thing for it is to burn them down. He offers that his anti-DEI crusade is about perception of rather than actual fairness. He wants to radically defund university funding not because they are misusing most of the funds they have but because he sees it as the only way to get them to play ball on the administration's goals. He knows he can't get the Civil Rights Act repealed so instead he has to invent novel interpretations of it.
There is no political philosophy under here except brute force. But I think the current project of the Right is to further mainline acceptance of pure power politics, so I think he has a bright future in openly admitting to deception for arbitrary ends.
The irony of these tremendously awful humans (rufo, shapiro, vance, et al) railing against the Ivies/academia writ large is that they are the proof of their own criticisms -
A bunch of ideological blowhards who went to said Ivies, graduated, did nothing with their degrees and yet wield disproportionate amounts of influence and power.
Heh, NYT just had an interview with Rufo. His frankness is...not refreshing, but "bracing" might work. He admits, for example, that Conservatives can't staff education departments because there aren't enough Conservatives who want to be in academic administration so the only thing for it is to burn them down. He offers that his anti-DEI crusade is about perception of rather than actual fairness. He wants to radically defund university funding not because they are misusing most of the funds they have but because he sees it as the only way to get them to play ball on the administration's goals. He knows he can't get the Civil Rights Act repealed so instead he has to invent novel interpretations of it.
There is no political philosophy under here except brute force. But I think the current project of the Right is to further mainline acceptance of pure power politics, so I think he has a bright future in openly admitting to deception for arbitrary ends.
The irony of these tremendously awful humans (rufo, shapiro, vance, et al) railing against the Ivies/academia writ large is that they are the proof of their own criticisms -
A bunch of ideological blowhards who went to said Ivies, graduated, did nothing with their degrees and yet wield disproportionate amounts of influence and power.