Posted on 01/17/2025 8:38:35 AM PST by karpov
People often ask me how, as an outspoken conservative professor at a large state university, I can get away with some of the things I say on social media and in essays for the Martin Center, Campus Reform, Minding the Campus, and other “right-wing” publications. Why, they want to know, hasn’t my institution already canceled me?
The answer is that a group of my colleagues, along with a couple of rogue (now former) administrators, did try to cancel me several years ago, but they failed. That was mostly because I have tenure and didn’t actually do anything wrong, but it was also because I’m fortunate to work in—as Donald Trump might say—“the big, beautiful red state” of Georgia.
I know. Some of you are under the impression that Georgia is actually purple, since we currently have two Democrat senators. I will just say that, in my view, that is an anomaly, created by factors I won’t go into here. The fact is—a fact overshadowed in the national press by Ron DeSantis’s historic, 19-point gubernatorial win in Florida—our own Republican governor, Brian Kemp, also won reelection in 2022 by an impressive margin (eight points). Kemp is actually our third two-term Republican governor in a row, following Nathan Deal and Sonny Perdue. Republicans also hold majorities of 33-23 in the state senate and 100-80 in the house. Perhaps more to the point relative to this discussion, former Gov. Perdue is now chancellor of the state’s university system, while all current members of the Board of Regents, which governs the system, were appointed by Republican governors.
Oh, and let’s not forget that Trump won Georgia by more than two points in 2024 and by nearly six in 2016, after Romney won by eight in 2012 and McCain by five in 2008.
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How does this rosy assessment square with the arrest of a Republican legislator just the other day?
4+ years of government censorship coming to an end. Let Liberty Reign!
I doubt that either one of those would have made a difference in a blue state.
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