I did not attend my own graduation at a public university in California precisely because I did not want to listen to some leftist spouting off about how rotten Ronald Reagan was, etc, etc. This crap has been going on for years. College commencement speakers are awful. This Salinas commie ruined the day for most of the graduates.
When I graduated Junior college before transferring for my last two years, I didn’t go. The commencement speaker was the then local NBC news anchor... Tom Brokaw.