Allow me for a moment to speak plainly about the threats to that freedom. We find ourselves in a world of growing threats. A world the comfortable elites in Washington refused to acknowledge for far too long. For decades, a bipartisan consensus sold this country a dangerous fantasy. They told us that history was over, that the rise of peer competitors was a relic of the past. and that we could afford to trade out our industrial might, our factories, our jobs, our self sufficiency, for the hollow promises of globalism. (09:18–09:32)
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Asserts that bipartisan consensus misled the country about the threat of peer competitors.
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