Chris Rufo Thinks the Right Can Control This. I Don’t.

Mm. really make a case that Chris Rufo is the most successful activist, certainly on the right. Of this era. He initially rose in prominence as the central strategist in the rights. Counter attack on

DEI initiatives. He's very much behind a lot of the demonization of critical race theory. Critical race theory has become, in essence, the default ideology of the federal bureaucracy. And is now being weaponized against the American people. He claims CRT is actually a revolutionary program that would overturn the principles of the declaration and destroy the remaining structure of the constitution. And he built that into a series of campaigns that have actually changed policy. It's very influential in Ron DeSantis's governorship.

And kinda running Claudine Gay out of Harvard. Pushing out Claudine Gay, toppling the president of Harvard. For a journalist like me is a big win. Then in Donald Trump's second term. Quite a lot. has come out of Rufo's work. For

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