And in the name of inclusion, we've created this new culture of exclusion where certain points of view just weren't welcome. That's un American. It was neither diverse nor inclusive. And DEI and merit, you gotta pick one. You can't have both. Either group quotas or meritocracy. There's no middle ground. And I think one of the things not just the Republican Party stands for, but you could see vast swaths of the American population stands for, is that we stand for merit over group quotas. (02:32–02:38)
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Asserts that DEI and meritocracy cannot coexist.
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