We are three months out from the midterms. The economy is the number-one issue on voters' minds, and here is the trap: it is not enough to call the socialists crazy and beat them like a piñata. People have lived through decades of globalization, free trade, and deliberate deindustrialization. They are hurting, and they are looking for a real answer. We have it — the American System.
Alexander Hamilton bet the country on one idea: that wealth comes from the human mind, not from what an empire can steal. Two hundred years later, in the age of AI, that bet is paying off — and it's the key to winning the midterms.
In Bootcamp #19, Susan Kokinda lays out the winning message: the skilled trades revival and the six-figure jobs AI cannot take. Drawing on the new OSTP report "A Scientific Revolution and America's Golden Age," we look at what Hamilton and Lincoln understood and that Milton Friedman's free-traders don't. And this is what makes Trump's new Republican Party the party of the working class and what can win the Midterms.