Cliff Sims

And the Soviet Union was not in the global economy the way that the Chinese have been

put themselves into the global economy.

Again, we caused this.

We brought China in the World Trade Organization.

We normalized trade relations with them.

We propped up their economy.

We invested millions, billions, trillions of dollars into their economy over there.

This happened over the course of decades.

So we've got to do this over the course of decades to kind of get ourselves out of that.

But how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time?

And we got to start taking bites every single day.

Little bite here, little bite there, shoring up our supply chains, building our industrial base back, rebuilding our military, all of these different things we got to be doing at home while being willing to decouple from China and build

consensus around the world that we cannot be in business with the Chinese, the countries around the world, our allies can't be in business with the Chinese the way that we are right now.

Only over time by taking those little bites are we gonna get to the point that we can truly confront that threat.

What about

Yeah, it's hard to do.

It's really hard to do.

And this is also placing a real expectation on a consumer to have, you know, you're a regular person out there and you're making 50 grand a year.

and you're trying to put food on the table and trying to, like, what car are you gonna buy?

What American car are you gonna buy?