{"id":2212,"date":"2020-10-30T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/usc-gop-chair-jack-patton-hones-his-political-ambitions-at-usc-dornsife\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T16:54:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T23:54:43","slug":"gop-chair-jack-patton-political-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/gop-chair-jack-patton-political-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"USC GOP chair Jack Patton hones his political ambitions at USC Dornsife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3343-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3343-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"USC GOP chair Jack Patton hones his political ambitions at USC Dornsife\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  International relations major Jack Patton, current chair of the USC GOP club, interned this past summer with the U.S. Department of State thanks to a scholarship from the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future. (Photos: Courtesy of Jack Patton.)\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=student\">Student<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>USC GOP chair Jack Patton hones his political ambitions at USC Dornsife<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  The international relations major has found USC an ideal place to work towards a career in politics, with the aim of championing bipartisan solutions. <strong>[5\u00bd min read]<\/strong>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a 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Angeles\u2019 politics fall pretty squarely to one side of the aisle. Only 17% of voters are registered Republican. L.A. County has not had a Republican mayor since Richard Riordan left the office in 2001.\u00a0The last time a Republican presidential candidate earned a majority of votes here was in 1984 when Ronald Reagan, himself a Californian, made his second run.<\/p>\n<p>That hasn\u2019t stopped\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscgop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USC GOP<\/a>\u00a0chair Jack Patton, a junior majoring in international relations at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, from feeling at home on the USC campus, smack in the heart of an overwhelmingly liberal city. He calls USC his \u201cdream school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patton has considerable practice fitting in as a political minority. His parents are both registered Democrats and he grew up in Manhattan, which has voted for every Democratic presidential candidate since 1988. He spends his summers on Martha\u2019s Vineyard, working at a restaurant where liberal icons like Barack and Michelle Obama dine.<\/p>\n<p>These experiences have trained him to view differing political opinions with grace, a rarity in a year marked by an exceptionally divisive presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth parties want to help people. It\u2019s not like one of them has malicious intentions,\u201d says Patton. \u201cThey\u2019re trying to make America better, they just have a different way of going about it. They have different beliefs, and there\u2019s nothing wrong with having a different opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eager to see bipartisan solutions make a comeback, he hopes to eventually enter politics. Once he graduates from USC Dornsife, he plans to head to law school and then jump into civic work \u2014 with big ambitions in mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIdeally, I\u2019d love to be president someday,\u201d Patton says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If at first you don\u2019t succeed \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patton knew he wanted to attend USC after a tour of campus as a high school senior. \u201cIt was a really welcoming environment, it\u2019s a beautiful campus and it\u2019s got great academics. It\u2019s just fantastic. So, I applied \u2014 and I got rejected,\u201d says Patton.<\/p>\n<p>Undeterred, he enrolled at the University of Vermont and kept his sights on USC. Although the slopes near campus offered great skiing, one of his major hobbies, he felt politically marooned. There wasn\u2019t a single conservative campus group for Patton to join.<\/p>\n<p>He applied to USC as a transfer student for his sophomore year and was accepted. Elated, he headed to L.A. and immediately found like-minded students at the USC GOP club. Rigorous discussion groups hosted by the club, centered on topics like Russian election interference, health care and climate change, have helped Patton shape his political views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe former president of the club was heavily active in the group Young Conservatives for Carbon Dividends. I\u2019d never really thought about that as a potential solution,\u201d says Patton. Backed by conservatives, carbon dividends are a tax on emissions that would be returned to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>An economics class at USC Dornsife introduced him to another market-based solution for climate change, \u201ccap and trade,\u201d in which companies are allocated a limited number of permits for carbon dioxide emissions, which they can either use or sell to other companies.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/PattonJack_InStoryA-3343.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Jack Patton\" width=\"250\" height=\"389\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After graduation, junior Jack Patton has his eye set on law school and then a career in politics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mr. Patton heads to Washington<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/staff.cfm?pid=1092116\">Timothy Turnbull<\/a>, a post-doctoral scholar and teaching fellow in political science and international relations, helped put Patton on a more direct course to Washington, D.C. During his spring semester on campus, Patton took Turnbull\u2019s course \u201cPost-War European Relations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Struck by Patton\u2019s leadership potential, Turnbull encouraged him to apply for a scholarship\u00a0through the USC Dornsife\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife-center-for-political-future.usc.edu\/unruh-institute\/about-the-unruh-institute\">Center for the Political Future\u2019s Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics<\/a>\u00a0and wrote him a letter of recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear upon meeting Jack that he possesses a strong work ethic and the qualities of a leader,\u201d says Turnbull.<\/p>\n<p>Patton was accepted into a summer scholarship program and interned with the U.S. State Department in the Office of Global Partnerships. The\u00a0COVID-19 pandemic turned the gig into a virtual one, but the experience was still immensely valuable.\u00a0\u201cIt was really great to meet all these people and see the inner workings of the government,\u201d says Patton.<\/p>\n<p>Patton was tasked with producing a guide to \u201chackathons,\u201d events where computer programmers and software designers collaborate on a project with a quick turnaround time. He admits computers aren\u2019t really his core interest, but he gamely agreed to the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI interviewed members of the private sector as well as different employees of the State\u00a0Department\u00a0and other governmental agencies, then I ended up compiling a big report about how to best go about hosting a hackathon,\u201d explains Patton. His amiable adaptability has paid off, with an invitation to return to the office next summer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minding Ps and Qs<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/PattonJack_InStoryB-3343.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Jack Patton at the beach wearing a sweatshit and face mask\" width=\"400\" height=\"258\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The chair of the USC GOP club enjoys a local beach while keeping safe during the pandemic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Life on a college campus as a conservative can have its rocky moments. \u201cI\u2019ve definitely felt like I can\u2019t always voice my opinion, even if it\u2019s just a standard small government conservative opinion,\u201d says Patton.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m constantly concerned about being called racist, sexist or homophobic without any merit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really a shame that\u2019s what conversation has shifted to. This idea that\u00a0being a Republican makes you a racist is no different from saying \u2018being a Democrat makes you a socialist,\u2019\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this tension, Patton continues to enjoy good-natured debates with friends who hold different political views. He encourages his peers to pursue the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think free, honest and respectful conversation is the most important thing that we\u2019re lacking in this country right now,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Positively American<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patton believes there\u2019s more room for across-the-aisle agreements than one might expect from inflammatory media stories and social media posts. Like his liberal peers, Patton is concerned about climate change. He\u2019d like more market-based solutions instead of top down government decrees, however.<\/p>\n<p>He also thinks there\u2019s considerable compromise to be made on gun control. \u201cOne thing that I find a lot of Democrats agreeing with me on is the Second Amendment. I think people have the fundamental right to own guns, but I support expanded background checks,\u201d says Patton.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to immigration, he\u2019s interested in restrictions that echo those of our liberal northern neighbor, Canada, whose qualifications for entry are more skills-based than America\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a pandemic and serious political division, Patton remains hopeful for the country\u2019s future, in large part because of America\u2019s enduring pluck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always think our best days are ahead of us and I agree. I do think our best days are ahead of us. I think that kind of optimism and willpower to build that better world is incredibly powerful, and I think it\u2019s a trait that not a lot of other countries have. That sense of positivity makes me really proud to be an American.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The international relations major has found USC an ideal place to work towards a career in politics, with the aim of championing bipartisan solutions. <strong>[5\u00bd min read]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[503,85,577,105,529,214],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student","tag-center-for-the-political-future","tag-international-relations","tag-jesse-m-unruh-institute-of-politics","tag-politics","tag-student-life","tag-undergraduate-spotlight"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>USC GOP chair Jack Patton hones his political ambitions at USC Dornsife<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/gop-chair-jack-patton-political-ambitions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"USC GOP chair Jack Patton hones his political ambitions at USC Dornsife\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The international relations major has found USC an ideal place to work towards a career in politics, with the aim of championing bipartisan solutions. 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