Seated before a mid-day audience at CPAC on Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, whipped attendees into a frenzy, not over healthcare, not over tax reform, but over campus free speech.
“I love CPAC,” he smiled, “and what I love the most about it is all of the young people.”
“CPAC is about young people,” continued Cruz, who joined Federalist publisher Ben Domenech for a wide-ranging conversation on the main stage. The crowd agreed.
Cruz said he calls today’s youth “Generation Freedom,” decrying the “sixties hippies who are imposing some draconian speech code” on college campuses.
That’s when the audience really got going.
Building off a rolling applause, Cruz told students to “spread the fire of liberty” at their schools, asking, “What young person with any sense wants to live with big government, with Washington controlling everything about you?”
“Freedom works,” the senator insisted.
