Conservative graduation speakers still give better advice than speakers on the Left.

In 2015, after reviewing two commencement-speech anthologies featuring 18 liberal speeches and 30 conservative speeches, New York Times columnist Carlos Lozada — then a Washington Post blogger — gave five reasons why conservatives do a better job.

First, he wrote, conservatives are more likely to speak to graduates as individuals rather than as members of a movement or generation.

Whereas liberal speakers say things, such as, “you are the first generation that ...,” conservative speakers are more likely to say things, such as, “you’ll rise or fall on your own” or “take opportunities as they present themselves and work hard.”

Second, Lozada wrote, conservative speeches, on average, are shorter. Whereas conservatives tend to give speeches that push tangible, measurable performance improvements, liberals are great at sweeping generalities that are short on specifics.

This trend has only grown more pronounced over the past decade.

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