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The Xiden regime was an absolute nightmare and catastrophe. Bidenflation; toxic identity politics, DEI, CRT, and social engineering; massive infiltration of illegal aliens; lawfare, retaliation, and surveillance of everyday Americans with conservative ideologies; and a cognitive decline of a sitting president were some of the many disasters of that era.

Trump has tackled many of these issues head-on and has done an impressive job with certain issues.

But there is one issue that is probably the most important of them all: the financial and economic impacts the everyday middle-class and working-class Americans face. My family is on the brink of collapse and financial ruin. We are among the many families we know who are struggling to afford even the most basic essentials like groceries, healthcare, and housing. Many are one unexpected emergency away from homelessness if not already there. Are we going to be able to pull out of this?

"Conservatives have criticized identity-based affirmative action because, they suggest, it imposes an expectation on students of color that they will represent what is presumed to be, say, the Black or Latino view on any given issue, which discourages freethinking. Admitting students for viewpoint diversity would turn the holding of conservative ideas into a quasi-identity, subject to some of the same concerns. Students admitted to help restore ideological balance would likely feel a responsibility to defend certain views, regardless of the force of opposing arguments they might encounter.

For professors hired for their political beliefs, the pressure to maintain those views would be even greater. If you had a tenure-track position, your salary, health insurance and career prospects would all depend on the inflexibility of your ideology. The smart thing to do in that situation would be to interact with other scholars who share your point of view and to read publications that reinforce what you already believe. Or you might simply engage with opposing ideas in bad faith, refusing even to consider their merits. This would create the sort of ideological echo chamber that proponents of viewpoint diversity have suggested, often with some justification, leads to closed-mindedness among left-leaning professors."