I would add to that the pubbies need to have a new industrial vision more powerful than that of the democrats.
the core of the industrial vision is to
1.)kill the cost of energy so that electrical production is 1/10 the cost of current cheapest coal electricity.
2.)kill the cost of desalinized water so that desalinized water is cheap enough for irrigating desert lands like california, arizona and the intermountain west.
And how are we to accomplish those goals?
Most of the cost of desalinized water is the electricity cost, so obviously achieving #1 achieves #2.
I like your thinking.
Instead of spending trillions to enrich Obama cronies since 2008, we might have developed something like cold fusion.