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Understand this: China has not only targeted our factories and our supply chains. It has targeted our cultural cohesion itself. Through social media manipulation, ideological infiltration of academic institutions, and strategic influence campaigns, they have fanned every ember of division they could find within American society — race, class, politics, gender, history. They didn't create all of these divisions. But they recognized them, stoked them, and weaponized them masterfully.
And so today, when someone rejects a policy not on its merits, but simply because it bears the name Trump — when they oppose a restoration of national strength out of tribal loyalty to weakness — they are, knowingly or not, doing the work of our enemies for them.
Honest debate is not the enemy. Honest criticism sharpens nations and strengthens ideas. But blind, performative resistance — the hatred that screams first and thinks later — is nothing but strategic self-sabotage wearing the mask of moral superiority. Nobody is asking you to like Donald Trump, especially me. I’m not even asking you to agree with Donald Trump. I’m asking you to look beyond the man, beyond the noise, and honestly assess what’s at stake. Look at the chessboard with clear eyes. Study the threats and our adversaries’ actions with a sober mind. Ask yourself: Would we be stronger if we keep going the way we have? Would we be safer? Or have we traded strength for spite, and security for slogans?
https://danconiajournal.substack.com/p/the-trump-doctrine-and-americas-strategic
