Creator Clay Travis features a “Letter to the Editor” he wrote throughout his school 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 by way of his nationally syndicated radio present and guide.

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” provides sane options for a GOP resurgence. It begins with free speech and features a hearty embrace of comedy alongside the way in which.

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 instructed 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” stated. Travis recalled a dialog with a good friend about Hollywood’s previous and problematic current.

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

That Hollywood is lengthy gone, stated 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 stated 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, indignant 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 instructed on CNN in 2017. The far-Left community banned him from its airwaves.

By no means say you’re sorry, particularly in the event you’ve achieved nothing fallacious.

“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 stated, which can not directly shield on a regular basis Individuals 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 towards Cancel Tradition. He doesn’t care what anybody says about him on-line. In truth, his “haters” typically present one of the 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 towards “mostly peaceful” protests that ravaged cities nationwide.

The media aligned with the far-Left (once more) to shred the tune as bigoted and hateful. That gave it great publicity, permitting shoppers to make up their minds in regards to the observe and its that means.

“It’s legitimately the biggest radio hit … of his entire career,” Travis stated. “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 components 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’ll be able to hear the total interview with “American Playbook” creator Clay Travis at The Hollywood in Toto Podcast.