Vice President J.D. Vance had a lot to say at the “American Compass” Gala in Washington and part of it was criticizing how inept the administration of former President Joe Biden was.

“One thing that is shocking about the prior government—about the government we inherited the White House from—is if I, on January 21st, in fact, I did ask this question: ‘Where are the biggest deficiencies in our supply chains? What are the 100 products that we’re completely reliant on some other entity to make for us? Where are they made, and how hard would it be to onshore that manufacturing?’” he said.

“I asked that explicit question, and the answer was, ‘We don’t know.’ Nobody in the prior government had actually asked these very fundamental questions,” the vice president said.

“What is so crazy about the hyper-globalized era is that you had these basic questions about the brittleness of our supply chains that were completely uninvestigated by the very people who supported globalizing those supply chains. We were actually governed by complete morons, and we didn’t even realize it until the Trump administration started to get underneath the hood of our government,” he said.

He also took aim at the lack of ideological diversity on college campuses like Harvard.

“I don’t know what the voting in the 2024 election of Harvard’s faculty was. My guess is that at least 90 percent and probably 95 percent voted for ‘very brilliant’ Kamala Harris,” the vice president said.

“If you ask yourself in a foreign election, if 80 percent of people voted for one candidate, you would say, ‘Oh that’s kind of weird. That’s not a super healthy democracy.’ If 95 percent voted for one party’s candidate, you’d say, ‘That’s North Korea.’ It is impossible in a true place of free exchange for that to happen,” Vance said.

“I think the ideological diversity of these universities has to get much better. And I think if that got better, if you actually had a place where people were open to debating these things, and weren’t terrified they were going to lose their job for saying something that was a little outside of the Overton Window, I think the science would get better. The preproducability would get better. The quality of the institution would be so much better, and that’s what I want because we need high quality universities. Right now, the problem is we don’t have them,” he said.