I think we both inherently understand how to reach people with wildly different views. She's also much more combative. I try not to be as combative. That's about where the comparison ends. I don't like being compared to her.
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Dan Crenshaw
Daniel Reed Crenshaw (born March 14, 1984) is an American politician and former United States Navy SEAL officer serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 2nd congressional district since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in the 2018 midterms. 2Early life and education Born to American parents in Aberdeen, Scotland, Crenshaw grew up in Katy, Texas. His mother died of cancer when he was ten years old. While his father worked in the oil industry, Crenshaw spent some time growing up in Ecuador and Colombia, gaining a proficiency in Spanish. Crenshaw graduated from Colegio Nueva Granada in June 2002.Crenshaw graduated from Tufts University in 2006. He earned a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in 2018 and worked as a military legislative assistant for Congressman Pete Sessions. 2Military service While at Tufts, he joined the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and was commissioned in the U.S. Navy after his graduation. He served in the Navy SEALs for ten years, including three tours of duty, reaching the rank of lieutenant commander. Crenshaw was a member of SEAL Team Three; and was based out of Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California.While serving in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in 2012, he was injured by the detonation of an improvised explosive device; he lost his right eye and required surgery to save the vision in his left ey
I love digging deep into policy, but then thinking a lot more strategically on how to message that to people my age, people who aren't generally voting Republican.
Our biggest weakness is messaging, I think ... Getting people excited, making conservatism cool again.
We can remember what brings us together as a country and still see the good in each other.
Americans can forgive one another.
I want us to get away from this culture where we demand an apology every time someone misspeaks.
There are many ideas that we will never agree on. The left and the right have different ways of approaching governance, based on contrasting philosophies. But many of the ultimate goals — economic prosperity, better healthcare and education, etc. — are the same. We just don’t share the same vision…
On Saturday, Pete Davidson and SNL made amends. I had some fun. Everyone generally agreed that a veteran’s wounds aren’t fair game for comedy. Maybe now we should all try to work toward restoring civility to public debate.
I think Jordan Peterson has probably done the best job of describing the dangers of identity politics. Call it out for what it is and then provide an alternative. The alternative is that we're a united people, and we're all individuals, and what matters is the content of our character.
The conversation has to be about the rule of law, respecting our sovereignty, the hundreds of thousands of people crossing illegally, dragging kids across because our laws incentivize that, and the humanitarian crisis that creates.
‘Medicare for all’ sounds simple, but it's not. It creates an enormous bureaucracy and really dire consequences that people don't understand.
Yeah, we shouldn't deny that there's been a little bit of a populism-creep into the party. I still think the populism is far worse on the Left. I think it's far more pervasive – the Medicare for all, gonna give everything away for free type of message is really inherently impossible. That being…
I think what they'll find is that voters are more willing to forgive you and listen to you if you're just honest with them in your conviction and understand why you believe what you believe, and you understand it so well that you can help them understand it.
I want the party to be perceived as a party that simultaneously appreciates traditional principles and founding principles – like limited government, individual freedom, and personal responsibility, federalism, appreciation for our Constitution, and the prosperity it has given us – while also being…