Creator Clay Travis features a “Letter to the Editor” he wrote throughout his faculty days in “American Playbook.”

No, it’s not an egotistical flex.

The school-age Travis defended free speech on the time, and he’s doing the identical now through his nationally syndicated radio present and e book.

The latter’s message?

Republicans higher observe his “Playbook” if they need the White Home in 2024.

Travis’ “American Playbook: A Guide to Winning Back the Country from the Democrats” gives sane options for a GOP resurgence. It begins with free speech and features a hearty embrace of comedy alongside the best way.

Sure, comedy.

“You’re not gonna love every joke a comedian tells… but what the Republican party needs to lean into is the First Amendment, free speech and the marketplace of ideas,” Travis advised The Hollywood in Toto Podcast.

That place ought to align the GOP with Hollywood, Inc., however that’s hardly the case. Tinsel City is aggressively liberal, however the chasm goes past politics.

“Hollywood has become a stultified arena where free speech is not what it used to be,” the co-host of “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show” mentioned. Travis recalled a dialog with a buddy about Hollywood’s previous and problematic current.

Hollywood as soon as attracted “eccentrics,” individuals who thought in another way from their friends.
They gathered in La La Land to share their views and, alongside the best way, sparked unbridled creativity.

That Hollywood is lengthy gone, mentioned Travis, founding father of OutKick.com (full disclosure: this reporter contributes to the positioning)

“What you see now are people worried about what words they use, people worried about what jokes they say … that’s the antithesis of creativity,” he mentioned of the present woke ambiance.

“American Playbook” breaks down political positions, like the necessity to embrace platforms with broad attraction. Cancel Tradition, for instance, speaks to a small, offended a part of the voting bloc regardless of its outsized presence.

That’s one purpose Travis stands as much as the woke mob, most notably when he wouldn’t apologize for a playful joke he advised on CNN in 2017. The far-Left community banned him from its airwaves.

By no means say you’re sorry, particularly if you happen to’ve completed nothing improper.

“The idea that you would ever apologize if you’re wealthy is laughably absurd … the people with resources have to set the standard of what is and isn’t permissible,” he mentioned, which can not directly defend on a regular basis People from potential cancellation.

It’s one thing superstars like Stephen King and Scarlett Johansson did not do when focused by the mob.

Travis has one other secret in opposition to Cancel Tradition. He doesn’t care what anybody says about him on-line. In truth, his “haters” usually present the very best promoting for his work.

And he’s removed from alone.

He factors to Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town,” a battle cry in opposition to “mostly peaceful” protests that ravaged cities nationwide.

The media aligned with the far-Left (once more) to shred the track as bigoted and hateful. That gave it super publicity, permitting customers to make up their minds in regards to the monitor and its which means.

“It’s legitimately the biggest radio hit … of his entire career,” Travis mentioned. “Even [Aldean] would say, ‘this is nowhere near the best song I’ve ever written’ … but the negative attention from the Cancel Culture community is so powerful … a ton of people who would have never heard that song heard it.”

“American Playbook” permits Travis to share his political awakening. He as soon as leaned to the Left, however a number of elements nudged him into the GOP camp, together with conservatives’ religion in free speech.

That perception by no means wavered inside him.

“I stayed consistent. What disappoints me is that the Howard Sterns of the world have not. It’s important to stand on principles, not politics,” he says. “I haven’t changed hardly at all. The world has spun insanely around me.”

You may hear the complete interview with “American Playbook” writer Clay Travis at The Hollywood in Toto Podcast.