Posted on 09/08/2025 7:33:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Trump is enlisting tech titans to secure U.S. dominance in AI, biotech, and national security—reviving a modern-day War Production Board for the 21st century.
The left weighs in on anything that Trump is against, which drives it to lionize criminals like Abrego Garcia, champion open borders, and oppose increased oil and natural gas production. And they are against anything Trump is for. So often, they did not care much about big-city crime rates, supported biological men’s usurpation of women’s sports, and opposed taking out the Iranian nuclear threat.
However, recently, some former and, no doubt, current Trump opponents now seem to support both what Trump is for and what he is against—at least in a few areas. So this past week, Donald Trump hosted some of the richest, most powerful—and most liberal—high-tech CEOs in the country at the White House.
Their shared goal ostensibly is to ensure U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence, robotics, genetic engineering, cryptocurrency, and nearly every other breakthrough field that has both sparked global competition and involves U.S. national security.
In this regard, Trump seems to be channeling Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who, during the early years of World War II, enlisted his ideological foes, mostly the nation’s CEOs, to rearm the virtually defenseless U.S. He tasked them to jump-start the moribund American economy to produce in a matter of months the best and most plentiful ships, planes, vehicles, communications, and new military technologies.
Despite their ideological differences, both FDR and Trump knew that only private enterprise could rearm and reboot the nation, and only if the captains of industry were infused with patriotic zeal, guaranteed freedom to innovate and adapt, and able to make a profit on their investments, would they become partners with and not adversaries of the government.
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Musk wasn’t there , a rather conspicuous absence.
HOORAY President Trump!
He had to be somewhere else. He sent a representative...so he was there...
Thank you.
Greatly appreciate this post.
Good to know thanks
This is the part that scares me. I don't know how many people are publicly spirited and patriotic and united. Perhaps 10 or 20 years from now, if I'm right that the next Great Awakening has already started.
Cleary the focus is on starting another war.
Yay! Let’s all cheer for that.
But it will be a good war. The best war ever.
The problem with having become a different population during the last 60 years is that a Great Awakening, can’t happen, we are not the same population, we can see some changes and some push back, perhaps short lived wins, but in the end, the foreigners who make up almost half of America now and who will continue to replace us every year, have different tastes than us and they are not us, heck, they even have different tastes from each other, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Islam, Hinduism, animism, atheism, Buddhism, whatever that mix creates is our domestic future.
I can’t believe anyone can even think this is a good thing... No one ever read 1984 or watched the Matrix? Have you all been possessed?
We do live in interesting times my friends.
In addition to high-tech, we could use one just for old-style industrial production: the Navy can’t get ships or submarines built and serviced and we have only 1 or 2 plants that can make artillery tubes. Pathetic.
The neo-socialist president Franklin Delano Roosevelt pivoted. He abandoned the New Deal statist control of the economy and instead unleashed the captains of industry to rearm the United States in the way that they thought best.
Interesting that President Trump would even think of reviving such an institution as the War Production Board. Prof Hanson's take.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson The Sword of Perseus
One of his sponsors' website: The Daily Signal
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