JD Vance

But if you as a college are actually promoting

social conventional thinking, then you're not serving your fundamental purpose.

And I think the entire university system in this country is broken because of that fact.

Yeah, so, Shabbat, if you think about the great era of American economic dominance, right, it's the 40s, it's the 50s, it's the 60s, it's when we were so far ahead of the rest of the world that, you know, economically, it just felt like nobody could possibly catch up to us.

And back in that era, one of the great things that worked was true public-private partnerships, where we let the free market, we let private industries do what private industries were really good at, but we had a discrete goal in public policy and we tried to facilitate it, right?

There were certain basic research things that didn't make sense

in a private sector context, but maybe they made sense for the country overall.

There are certain weapons systems that maybe weren't profitable.

We were going to make them profitable because they were important for American national security.

Of course, the entire moon landing is a story of a great public-private partnership that produced a whole host

of great technological development and economic benefit downstream.

I do think that we're taking a very discreet view of certain industries, of certain core technologies, certain core weapons systems, and saying the United States is not going to allow our industrial base, our technology base to atrophy anymore.

You've seen some stuff out of that.

I mean, we're only six months into this thing, and I think we've done a hell of a job.

I'm obviously biased, but we're only six months into this.

You're going to see a lot more over the next three and a half years.

Well, OK, I have one David Sachs story.

It was actually in the Navy mess, which is sort of the cafeteria in the White House.

And we're sitting down there, and we're eating lunch.

And some young kid, I don't know if it was a White House intern or somebody, walks over.