Gov. Wes Moore

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The Bulwark Daily · S2 Ep1004: Wes Moore: The System Doesn't Work for a Lot of People · 20 Mar 2025 podcast

Army veterans, people and just military veterans, people who have done more to serve this country than they ever have. or ever would. And these are the people that they're going after.

It is. Yeah. No. And listen, I'm in a whole lot of text chains with a whole lot of vets and a lot of them are conservatives. And to hear how the tone has changed over the process of these past weeks, this is real. Like people are realizing this is not what we fought. And this is not the policies that we believed in or voted for or whatever the case is.

So there is a sleeping giant that's now being awoken in the military veterans community.

I don't know how you can claim to love this country or drape yourself in the flag when you're so disrespectful to Americans. Loving your country does not mean loving the ones who supported you. And loving your country does not mean lying about its history. or masking entire segments of its history. Loving your country does not mean defending some of the people in the country.

Loving your country means having a firm understanding that this country's arc has been deeply uneven. But the reason that we've been able to make progress is because we've had people who are willing to believe in the hope of all of us and not just some of us. It's difficult to look at the policies that we're seeing in place when their baseline is division,

when their baseline is separation, when their baseline is going back to these old political tropes about what can you do to separate us? Because if you separate us and divide us, you have a better chance of winning fragmented elections. And that's what I think that this goal is. This is not about bringing us together. This is actually just about power.

No, and I think it's very clear about whose interests come first. Yeah. And think about it. You can't argue that you believe in American competitiveness when you're directly going after many of the things that make America so competitive in the first place. You're going after things like our institutions of higher education. our research grants, the NIH. Let's be clear.

One of the things that makes America so powerful is the fact that we have some of the best research institutions in this country. One of the things that makes this country so unique is the fact that you have people who are coming from all around the world, the world's best and brightest, who want to come to the United States to learn,

to train, to get their degrees, to start their families, and to build. It's the reason why our immigrant communities have been some of the strongest contributors to the United States. One of the United States superpowers is the fact that we are this beautiful melting pot of the world's best and brightest who all come here. We are the globe's dream team.

That's what the United States has always supported itself on. And some of the first things you go after are the institutions of higher education, Some of the first things you go after are research institutions, the thing that's bringing them here. Some of the first things you go after is things like the NIH.

I mean, you cannot argue that you believe in American supremacy or making this the golden age when you're actually directly going after the things that make America so unique in the first place and ceding that leadership to other countries.

Just the white guys. Bounce passes.

Yeah, man.

Of course there's going to be, because this is a really hard issue. Right. It's a hard issue that I'm not going to lose on because it's one of the big reasons why we decided to run. If you think about, you know, think about this and this is what's wild to him. The greatest driver of wealth in our nation and nation history has been housing. Right. People were able to accumulate real estate.

People accumulate value. That's how you're able to actually have generational wealth and generational wealth that you can pass on. The greatest driver of poverty. in our society is housing insecurity. So if you look at, housing is the barbell, right? Housing either can generate significant wealth or generate significant poverty, both generational.

And so if you look at one of the biggest reasons why young Marylanders are considering leaving our state, it is because of one word, housing. Right. Housing costs, housing affordability. But it's all comes back to housing. And so I've been very clear. We have to build more housing. We have to be able to have more inventory.

We have to be able to make sure that we're turning more renters into homeowners. We have to make sure that we're protecting our renters. We have to make sure that we're creating generational wealth. And if you look at what we did last year, we passed the most aggressive housing package of any Maryland governor in recent history.

We focus on things like transit oriented development and density bonuses and making sure that we can provide more incentives for developers and knowing that there's places we should not build. But in the places where we should build and can build, we will build. Right. And I told the legislature and next year I'm coming back for more. And we are.

And this year we have a whole new bill that's focusing around looking at the places where we have significant job growth and saying, but the job growth will be unsustainable unless you can build more housing, build more options for people to live in and create better incentives and not only incentives, but also greater supports for people to become homeowners.

So, yes, it is hard and it is difficult.

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