The Builders' Republic

Every era has technologies that decide who leads. In the nineteenth century it was railroads and steel. In the twentieth it was aircraft, the atom and the microchip. In this century it is artificial intelligence, spaceflight and cheap, abundant energy.

Today's American founders in rockets, electric vehicles and AI are showing again what ambition can do. We honor that. We also want it tied to the national interest. The defining technologies of this century should be invented, built and controlled here.

• Build the energy that new industry needs, including a new generation of nuclear plants.
• Keep the most advanced AI and computing on American soil and under American law.
• Fix the permitting system that makes building anything in America slow and expensive.

Lincoln signed the railroad and the land-grant colleges into law in the middle of a civil war. We can build reactors and power lines in peacetime.