Ro Khanna
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We built up Europe with the Marshall Plan.
We built up our own industry in doing amazing things.
We won the Cold War.
We went to the moon.
We started the internet through DARPA and NSF.
We invented a GPS.
We invented AI through the government.
How do we convince people
that you can have public excellence again, that you can have national projects that work again, that you can have a sense that we can all do something with government that makes life better.
Because I agree with you.
Right now, people think it's corrupt with Epstein.
They waste money.
But you can't have a great nation if people don't believe it's possible to do great things with our government.
And we've lost that ability or faith, other than the military.
People are like, OK, we've got a great military.
But how do we have that more broadly as a national aspiration?
Let me challenge you, Sean.
Look.
We've had people scale the cliffs of Normandy, right?
And so you and I could be free.