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good evening welcome to Tucker Carlson
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tonight there comes a time in every
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presidential administration when the
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people in charge realize they're not
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really in control unforeseen events
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arise in an instant every assumption
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about the future changes heads of state
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die wars erupted natural disasters to
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send epidemics rage none of it was in
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anybody's plan there's something about
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human nature that prevents us from
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preparing for this for abrupt and
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radical change we pretend the unexpected
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will never happen but there's something
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in nature itself that reminds us it
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inevitably will it's always a terrifying
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realization the rise of the Chinese
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coronavirus is that kind of moment the
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virus is quickly becoming a global
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pandemic ultimately it could kill
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millions at the very least it will
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reorder the global economy and change
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our politics could the disease help
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determine the outcome of our next
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presidential election eight months from
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now of course it could in fact it will
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our leaders can't stop that like all
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matters of life and death it is beyond
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human power to affect but they can
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respond to the threat in a way that
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makes this country stronger not weaker
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how can they do that
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here's how the first step is to take the
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virus seriously and to convince the
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public that you are in 1918 Woodrow
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Wilson's White House downplayed the
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Spanish Influenza and refused to take
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obvious precautions to slow its spread
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Wilson had a pointless war in progress
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in Europe to fight his generals couldn't
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be distracted from that goal so the
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government continued to ship men to
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overcrowded army camps across the
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country and to pack them on ships to
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France the virus spread exponentially in
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the end about 53,000 American soldiers
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were killed in combat in that war at
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least 675 thousand Americans died of the
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flu could Wilson have prevented that
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disaster well not entirely but by early
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and decisive action he could have
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improved America's odds so what does
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effective action look like now well we
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ought to be screening people when they
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get off the planes from infected
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countries that's not complicated it's
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obvious but at the same time it is
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hardly a solution we should be honest
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about how much we can do to keep the
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Chinese coronavirus from coming here a
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hundred years ago the Spanish flu killed
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a significant percentage of the
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population in remote Aleutian Islands
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and that was before air travel today the
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entire world is
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connected by hourly international
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flights global pandemics are inevitable
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there's too much movement to keep
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viruses isolated we should acknowledge
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that yes we can do our best to keep
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foreign diseases out of this country but
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we ought to spend most of our time
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trying to figure out how to protect
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Americans once the diseases get here
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there's still a lot we don't know about
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the Chinese coronavirus but two things
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do seem clear it is highly communicable
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and the elderly and people with
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pre-existing respiratory disease face
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the greatest threat from it that means
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for most Americans the biggest risks
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will come not from the virus itself but
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from its ancillary effects people will
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panic Travel will be disrupted markets
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will tumble and most critically
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hospitals will be overwhelmed we're
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about to learn the limits of our health
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care system conditions will be tough for
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the many thousands of Americans looking
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for beds to recover from the flu in
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Seattle they already are but things will
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be even worse for anyone suffering from
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say pancreatitis or a burst appendix not
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to mention countless other health
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emergencies people like this may not get
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care at all our system won't be able to
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accommodate them there are many
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implications of this and some of them
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are political for example is this really
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the time to invite the rest of the world
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to join Medicare for all probably not
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that idea was always stupid now it's
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clearly dangerous on a practical level
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saving American medicine from collapse
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must be our leaders top priority right
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now we need to expand emergency hospital
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bed capacity we need to make certain we
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have enough life-saving drugs and
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medical equipment the basics
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unfortunately that's not as simple as it
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sounds or as it should be well the rest
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of us who are arguing about sexism and
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transgendered bathrooms China took
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control of our health care system
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China dominates the world market in
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pharmaceutical ingredients compounds
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used in virtually every essential
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medicine for high blood pressure for
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cancer for Alzheimer's disease and many
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more come from China so the key
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components in vital medical technology
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CT scanners x-ray machines ultrasounds
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as of tonight more than 95% of all the
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antibiotics in America are manufactured
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in communist China 95 percent our chief
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global rival has a total man
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Polly on the most important medicine in
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the world that should worry you more
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than anything the candidates are
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currently talking about imagine watching
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one of your children die from an
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infected cut china has the power to make
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that happen the Chinese government is
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acutely aware of this power last year a
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prominent Chinese economist suggested
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cutting off the supply of antibiotics to
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the United States as leverage in the
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trade war that should have been the
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biggest story in America the news media
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all but ignored it why because it
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implicated them and their political
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party in one of the greatest crimes of
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our time
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nine years ago famously brilliant former
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President Barack Obama did predict a
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connection between China and the next
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global pandemic
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unfortunately Obama got it backward he
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claimed China would help us I absolutely
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believe that China's peaceful rise is
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good for the world and it's good for
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America to the extent that we have a
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partner in addressing issues like
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climate change or pandemic our foremost
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genius the people in charge have no idea
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what they're doing and to the extent
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they do they're selling us out on
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purpose we should have seen this coming
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in recent weeks you've heard a lot about
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disruption to our so-called supply
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chains think about what that means it
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means that thanks to economic changes
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that made a small group of business
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moguls incredibly rich we no longer make
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the things we need to survive and
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prosper as a nation people who hate us
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and who seek to displace us make those
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things and it's not just medicines and
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x-ray machines it's computers and phones
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and robotics and automotive components
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and machine tools and essential parts
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for aircraft engines etc in fact apart
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from fossil fuels
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it's almost everything and now you may
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have noticed many of our leaders are
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talking about shutting down our domestic
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energy sector the last independent part
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of the American economy
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this is sabotage and we're about to
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learn how undermined we've been at some
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point our leaders should be held to
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account for this for now we need to work
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as if our lives depended on it to fix
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this problem global warming isn't the
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existential threat we face extortion
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from China is in very real ways that
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Chinese government controls us there is
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no greater national security danger than
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the one they posed to
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bond we need a modern martial plan one
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designed to rebuild essential American
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manufacturing we should start tomorrow
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with medicine and technology to fight
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the corona virus and then with
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antibiotics some will oppose the idea
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because it poses a threat to
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arrangements they currently benefit from
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but a majority of Americans will welcome
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it gladly
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even in the Congress manufacturing lifts
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every congressional district it
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shouldn't be hard to win bipartisan
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support no doubt the sages on television
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will denounce any acknowledgment of
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China's threat as racism or intolerance
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Joe Biden's already done that ignore
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them
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the Chinese coronavirus really is
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Chinese it arose in that country for the
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same reason American businesses have
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sent so many of our jobs there lacks
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health and safety standards and endemic
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corruption China did this to the world
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and we should not pretend otherwise
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that's not xenophobia it's true the most
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bitter irony of all of that is that a
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few years from now when every last
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victim of this virus has recovered or
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been buried the Chinese government could
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easily grow stronger because of this
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disaster and America weaker China
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unleashes a pandemic and then overtakes
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the US as a result that's too horrible
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an outcome to contemplate and too
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dangerous for us we ought to do
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everything we can to make certain it
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does not happen now let's start by
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accurately describing what is happening
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the Chinese quarter virus isn't some
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fluke of globalization it is the
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inevitable byproduct of it exotic
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diseases and the mass destruction they
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cause are the built-in cost of
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connectedness and they always will be
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the people have told us there was no
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downside to living in a borderless world
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were lying make them eat their words
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strip them of their power never listen
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to them again in fact and this is still
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the hardest thing for official
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Washington to accept this pandemic
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vindicates Donald Trump's entire
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political thesis on the big things
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Trump was right trade immigration
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manufacturing globalization these are
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the issues our ruling class assiduously
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ignores and has ignored for decades in
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favor of silly calculated distractions
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like gender warfare and race politics
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things that defied us
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Trump by Contra
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rain on the issues that mattered and he
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won precisely because the public was
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tired of being lied to and he should
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remember that the White House reaction
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the corner of iris so far has been
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uneven and limp but it doesn't need to
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be the blueprint for an effective
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response response that not only protects
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this country but improves it he's right
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there in the president's 2016 acceptance
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speech of the Republican convention in
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Cleveland Americanism not globalism will
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be the credo he said we are going to
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start building and making things again
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all we need to do is start believing in
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ourselves in our country again it is
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time to show the world that America is
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back bigger and better and stronger than
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ever before
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there it is that's the governing agenda
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in the age of the Chinese coronavirus
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abandoned globalism rebuild the country
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make the things we need a strong America
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is an independent America there's no
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other way
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