In three years on this platform, I think my biggest "called it" was immediately after Charlie Kirk's death, when I said that Right Wingers should not be engaging anyone in a university environment. It's not giving up or running away. It's not even a retreat. Universities are going through a crisis of legitimacy, and every engagement on a campus gives them legitimacy. At best, an on-campus event accomplishes nothing. At worst, it's all upside for them and all downside for you. Watch the video and tell me there was anything to be gained from this interaction, or any similar interaction. If you want to engage students, administrators, or formal academics in discourse, knock yourself out. But if it's in the physical world, it has to be in a venue that shows no reverence for the university system, even if it's just a rickety community center. If you want to engage a formal academic in online debate or discourse, there needs to be a moderator who awards zero points for academic credentials. It doesn't have to be one of our guys, but it needs to be someone like @BenjaminABoyce who shrugs at credentials instead of fawning over a PhD from Yale. And there are lots of people like that in our circle, including people who have those formal credentials.

What is sovereignty, Erin? It seems to be the main word in both your original post and the reply to it.

Narrator: "DEI is literally about hiring someone unqualified."