What would happen if Democrat diversity mandates rocked the sports world?

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Editor’s note: This is an exclusively adapted excerpt from Clay Travis’s American Playbook: A Guide to Winning Back the Country from the Democrats.

America needs to look more like sports — where the best man or best woman wins regardless of race, sexuality or socioeconomic status — and less like the Democrat vision of identity politics.   No scoreboard begins with diversity points added, there aren’t different rules for the game based on the races of the participants. You either can or cannot make a play. All that matters is your talent and whether you make a team more or less likely to win. Sports is naturally anti-woke, it’s pure capitalism on the field and court, you either win and get rich off your talents or you lose and find another job.   In fact, if sports applied modern Democrat diversity and identity politics rules, every team, sport and league would be worse off. As I explain in my new book, "American Playbook."  

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If Reagan, Clinton, and Obama were so popular, why didn’t their electoral popularity translate to their successors? Because, quite simply, all three men were unicorns, incredible political talents whose skill sets aren’t easily replicated.  

Democrat commitment to diversity has resulted in unpopular candidates like Vice President Kamala Harris. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

That’s understood when it comes to Reagan, of whom Republicans have been pining for a modern version for a generation now, and to Clinton, who