DeSantis: I Went to Yale and Harvard and Came out More Conservative than I Went In

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DeSANTIS: “But you start sitting in one of those classrooms, and even though one of Yale’s mottoes is 'For god, for country, for Yale,' I sit in the classroom, they are attacking religion, attacking God, attacking the United States. I'm sitting in class and they're saying that the U.S. was to blame for the Cold War, not Joseph Stalin. So this is the -- I never experienced that, because growing up in Dunedin, I didn’t know if people were Republican or Democrat. You know, you had both of them, but everyone kind of believed in the core American principles. So, that was my exposure to the left. And I think what it did for me was, it was so different from what I thought was appropriate that I was not influenced by it in terms of it pulling me in that direction. I rebelled the other way. So by the time I got through college and law school, you know, I was definitely set. Although when I was running for Congress, I kind of tell the story in the book, I was green, I had never run before. You know, I had kind of an impressive resume, I'd served in Iraq and done things, so there were things that conservative primary voters would like, but, you know, you see Yale and Harvard, that is like, you know, people say liberal elitist stuff. So the question was, how do I prove that I actually mean what I say. I was like, 'Listen, how many people that you know go up to Washington, they say they were going to do these things, and then the swamp co-opts them and they end up not following principle? Well, look at me. I got through Yale and Harvard and came out more conservative than when I went in. The swamp will have nothing on that.' And they appreciated that.”