The Conservative Mastermind Behind Claudine Gay s Ouster
Politico: How much credit do you think you deserve for Gay s resignation?
Christopher Rufo: I ve learned that it never hurts to take the credit because sometimes people don t give it to you. But this really was a team effort that involved three primary points of leverage. First was the narrative leverage, and this was done primarily by me, Christopher Brunet and Aaron Sibarium. Second was the financial leverage, which was led by Bill Ackman and other Harvard donors. And finally, there was the political leverage which was really led by Congresswoman Elise Stefanik s masterful performance with Claudine Gay at her hearings.
When you put those three elements together narrative, financial and political pressure and you squeeze hard enough, you see the results that we got today, which was the resignation of America s most powerful academic leader. I think that this result speaks for itself.
His results do speak for themselves. He must be a stone cold BAMF.