When I met the Ultimate Warrior as a freshman and campus conservative activist at DePaul, he was retired from professional wrestling. He had traded in the ring for a podium and was making the rounds for Young America’s Foundation, a youth outreach organization aimed at introducing students to conservative and libertarian ideas.
In the lead-up to the talk, I watched a YouTube video of a Warrior appearance at the University of Connecticut, with him facing down a hostile crowd, and got excited. DePaul liked to pretend conservatives didn’t exist, but Warrior could fix that. If liberals could host the likes of Ward Churchill, we would host a rabble-rouser of our own, and blow the roof off.
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