Patrick Ruffini

Ruffini grew up in France, Italy, and Greenwich, Connecticut, and graduated in 1996 from Greenwich High School.Lightman, David (March 24, 1993). [https://www.courant.com/1993/03/24/constituents-cool-to-clintons-budget/ Constituents Cool To Clinton's Budget], Hartford Courant (report on 14-year-old Ruffini speaking at town hall in Greenwich for Congressman Chris Shays, criticizing the British health care system){{cite news |date=August 4, 1996 |url=http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/aug/04/caign-96/ |title=Campaign '96 - Web site of the week |newspaper=The Spokesman-Review}} He is a 2000 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and currently resides in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.{{cite web | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/23/rising-conservative-star_n_128789.html | title=Rising Conservative Star Patrick Ruffini Riles The Right | publisher= Huffington Post | date=September 23, 2008 | accessdate=April 4, 2012 | author=Edsall, Thomas B.}}

Ruffini began blogging in 2001, and has been a front-page contributor for RedState and Townhall.com. In the 2004 election, Ruffini served as webmaster for the Bush-Cheney campaign. Following the 2008 election, Ruffini co-authored the Rebuild the Party platform for Republican renewal.Salam, Reihan (October 2008). [https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200810/rightroots/2 Planting the Rightroots]. The Atlantic. Retrieved on October 31, 2010.

From 2005 to 2007, Ruffini served as eCampaign Director at the Republican National Committee (RNC).[http://politicsmagazine.com/rising-stars-2008/ Campaigns & Elections | Connecting all players in the world of politics]. Politicsmagazine.com. Retrieved on October 31, 2010. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426060002/http://politicsmagazine.com/rising-stars-2008/ |date=April 26, 2009 }}

In 2007, Ruffini founded Engage, LLC, a political media firm.{{cite web | url=http://www.engagedc.com/about/ | title=About Engage | publisher=Engage LLC (Official website) | accessdate=April 4, 2012}}

In 2008, he co-founded The Next Right, a forum for the youth conservative movement. Reihan Salam wrote in Atlantic in 2008 that Ruffini "looks poised to become one of the most influential Republican political strategists of his generation."{{cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/10/planting-the-rightroots/306969/|title=Planting the Rightroots|work=The Atlantic|date=October 2008}} He has authored a monthly "Digital Democracy" column for Townhall magazine, written for National Review, and appeared as a political analyst on Fox News Channel and C-SPAN's Washington Journal. Ruffini's analysis of emerging political trends has also appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, PBS MediaShift, and Newsweek.{{cite web | url=http://www.engagedc.com/patrick/ | title=Patrick Ruffini | publisher=Engage DC | accessdate=April 4, 2012}}{{Self-published inline|date=March 2012}}

In 2009, Ruffini and Engage helped develop the online political strategy for the Bob McDonnell campaign, who won the 2009 Virginia gubernatorial election.Judd, Nick (January 7, 2010). [http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/springtime-republican-political-technology Springtime for Republican Political Technology?]. TechPresident.com. Retrieved on October 31, 2010. In 2010, Ruffini assisted on the Senate campaign of Scott Brown in the Massachusetts special election.Ruffini, Patrick. (January 21, 2010). [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/lessons_of_the_mass_revolt_MuPkh1ZnvIXxkvGTe9iInO Lessons of the Mass. revolt: Feel the anger]. NYPOST.com. Retrieved on October 31, 2010.Salam, Reihan (January 20, 2010). [http://www.nationalreview.com/agenda/39135/patrick-ruffini-matters/reihan-salam Patrick Ruffini Matters], National Review

In 2013, he was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage in the United States during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.{{cite web |last1=Avlon |first1=John |title=The Pro-Freedom Republicans Are Coming: 131 Sign Gay Marriage Brief |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-pro-freedom-republicans-are-coming-131-sign-gay-marriage-brief |website=The Daily Beast |accessdate=August 7, 2019 |language=en |date=February 28, 2013}}

In January 2021, in the afternoon of the Capitol insurrection, Ruffini tweeted: "Impeach and remove. This is not about the next 14 days. It’s an insurance policy against people forgetting (they will) and definitively closing the door on any comeback bid in 2024."{{cite tweet | author=Patrick Ruffini |author-link=Patrick_Ruffini |user=PatrickRuffini |number=1346914778241970176 |title=Impeach and remove. This is not about the next 14 days. It's an insurance policy against people forgetting (they will) and definitively closing the door on any comeback bid in 2024.| archive-url=https://archive.today/20250130045525/https://x.com/PatrickRuffini/status/1346914778241970176 | archive-date=2025-01-30}} Later on he suggested that impeachment would have been the way for Republicans to "take a united stand against Trump, and to chart a different course without him."{{cite web| last=Ball | first=Molly | date=2021-01-13 | title=Impeachment Was the GOP's Last Chance to Quit Donald Trump| url=https://time.com/5929618/donald-trump-impeachment-republicans | archive-url=https://archive.today/20250130050349/https://time.com/5929618/donald-trump-impeachment-republicans/ | archive-date=2025-01-30}}

In January 2025, Ruffini suggested in a tweet that the Trump administration goes after the DSM-5: "It should be a policy goal to end all the fake autism/ADHD diagnoses that are infantalizing our kids.{{cite tweet | author=Patrick Ruffini |author-link=Patrick_Ruffini |user=PatrickRuffini |number=1883157723073871991 |title=The next target after DEI should be the DSM-5. It should be a policy goal to end all the fake autism/ADHD diagnoses that are infantalizing our kids.| archive-url=https://archive.today/20250127211319/https://x.com/PatrickRuffini/status/1883157723073871991 | archive-date=2025-01-27}}"

• {{cite web | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patrick-ruffini/sopa-pipa-internet_b_1219552.html | title=Beyond SOPA: A New Birth of Internet Freedom | publisher= Huffington Post | date=January 20, 2012 | accessdate=April 4, 2012 | author=Ruffini, Patrick}}
• {{cite web | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patrick-ruffini/jobs-act-crowdfunding_b_1341748.html | title=Unleash America's Grassroots Investors With Crowdfunding | publisher= Huffington Post | date=March 13, 2012 | accessdate=April 4, 2012 | author=Ruffini, Patrick}}

• {{cite book | url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Party-of-the-People/Patrick-Ruffini/9781982198626 | title=Party of the People - Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP | publisher=Simon & Schuster | accessdate=2025-01-29 | author=Ruffini, Patrick | isbn= 9781982198626 }}

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• {{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16535626 | title=Can online gaming influence a US presidential election? | work=BBC News | date=January 16, 2012 | accessdate=April 4, 2012 | author=Dailey, Kate}}

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• [https://archive.today/20131214195526/http://www.thenextright.com/blogs/patrick-ruffini Blog posts] at The Next Right
• {{cite web | url=http://www.salon.com/2008/10/15/ruffini/singleton/ | title=Patrick Ruffini, the demise of the right and the Democratic alternative | publisher=Salon Media Group, Inc | date=October 15, 2008 | accessdate=April 4, 2012 | author=Greenwald, Glenn |authorlink=Glenn Greenwald}}

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