Chad Scott

I think a Democratic version puts American power on a sustainable footing by treating allies as a force multiplier, meaning we have these diplomatic tools and our military force is an option of absolute last resort under congressional authorization.

whether it's a declaration of war or an authorization to abuse military force.

And I think you can sell this kind of America first notion or reclaim that because Biden actually was quite good at it.

The CHIPS Act, that was huge for American industry.

The Inflation Reduction Act shined.

It bolstered industry.

And I think if we can tell those stories, kind of like you were saying, tell those stories when it comes to energy, we can...

We can retake kind of the narrative that we cannot deter China without our own American working industrial base.

We need to focus on that, that we can sustain Ukraine with our equipment and it creates a partnership for drones, for instance, that we could absolutely use.

And also, I think, and just kind of circling back to the Gaza thing, I really am disappointed once again, and Adam Smith was a problem here where this idea of human rights should not be this luxury we attach to our foreign policy.

It needs to be a strategic core value because autocrats are unreliable partners.

When you talk about things like Putin and the North Korea, the Iran, these repressive regimes, and even the repression we see coming out of Israel,

It actually creates problems for the US.

It creates terrorism.

It creates refugees.

It creates instability that eventually the United States, as let's face it, still pretty much the global hegemon is going to have to deal with.

So if we can tell people, hey, we still need to focus on human rights, that is a core principle.

And here's why.

It's not just human rights, the big word, hand wave.

We said it, so high five.