This week, The Texas Tribune published a story detailing the political forces that contributed to the ouster of Texas A&M’s president Mark Welsh, the four-star general who was ultimately deemed unfit to manage the flagship university in College Station.

Welsh, who was beloved by faculty and students, was pushed out shortly after a video was published online showing him defending a teacher who had taught gender identity in her classroom. But he didn’t lose his job over that incident alone.

Welsh suffered death by a thousand cuts: a compounding of culture war controversies that ultimately led some members of the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents to lose faith in his leadership. And a relentless drumbeat of far-right criticism from websites like Texas Scorecard that made regents

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