A Strong America Requires Strong Factories
By Riley Moore | Commentary, The Blaze
America’s hollowed industrial base is our greatest vulnerability — and China’s greatest advantage. We can fix it.
Our country is standing at a crossroads. Neither the world nor America’s place in it is what it was a generation ago. The unipolar moment is over. And yet, many in the Republican Party seek to claim the mantle of America First while continuing the same failed adventurism of the past.
National conservatism as a movement agrees that these people and ideas must be stopped. But we have failed to check their influence in the party largely because we have not offered an alternative that both meets the real threats to American security and balances national interest, the deterrent effect, industrial capability, and political will.
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