Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called universities “the Wuhan lab of the woke virus” while discussing how Marxist ideologies have overtaken institutions and corporations within the United States.
Cruz’s comparison of college campuses to the Wuhan lab is a reference to reports and investigations on the origin of the COVID-19 virus. The Texas senator noted that his new book explained that all major institutions in the U.S. have been “seized by the radical Left,” and that it started with college universities.
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“I call universities the Wuhan lab of the woke virus,” Cruz said on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “It’s where the virus was created, it’s where it mutated, it’s where it spread. Each chapter of the book goes to a different institution. So, it goes from universities to K-12 education; and from there to journalism; and from there to government; and from there to big business; from there to Big Tech; from there to entertainment, to Hollywood, movies, TV, music, sports; from there to science and the corruption and politicization of science; and then ends as you know with China.”
Cruz went on to call China a “central nexus intertwined with all of this.” He said his new book, Unwoke, explains how the Democratic Party was able to seize the U.S. institutions while also showing how people can “take the institutions back.”
In pointing to education, one of the institutions discussed in Cruz’s book, Cruz noted the need for parents to stand strong against school boards and elect new school officials.
One school district mentioned in the book is in Loudoun County, Virginia. The district has received national attention over the arrest of parent Scott Smith, whose daughter was raped in the girl’s bathroom of a district high school, when he spoke out during a June 2021 school board meeting. The board had been considering policy 8040, which would allow students to use bathrooms based on their claimed gender identity rather than their biological sex.
Following an investigation, a Virginia state Attorney General Jason Miyares-impaneled special grand jury ultimately indicted then-Superintendent Scott Ziegler on misdemeanor charges and issued a scathing report that blasted the school board for its handling of the situation.
This past Tuesday, the county elected an entirely new slate of school board members, giving the county a fresh start after years of verbal conflict between parents and board members.
“Parents are taking school boards back,” Cruz told Bartiromo. “What we need is transparency; we need sunlight, and then we need action. And so that’s one of the strategies in terms of taking K-12 back.”
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Cruz’s new book, which was released on Tuesday, revealed that the Texas senator plans to run for president again, as he previously ran in the 2016 Republican primary race. While Cruz lost to former President Donald Trump, he called his presidential run “the most fun I’ve ever had in my life” and that he expects to run again “at some point.”
Cruz also revealed he chose not to run for president in 2024 because he felt he could be more effective working in the Senate, which he called “the battlefield for all of these issues.”
