Maybe I will eat my words on this, and everyone can call me a statist cuck, but both interviews I’ve watched with Lutnick (this and All In) leave me thinking that his sincere priority is to BUILD and level up the US economy. I’m sure there are plenty of things on which I do not align with him, so we can skip the purity test arguments- he is born to build and create wealth. I’d like to see that working for our country.

Contrast this with any interviews you might’ve seen with government officials of his type in the past. What do you notice? What sticks out for me is that this isn’t a long list of initiatives to funnel taxpayer money to favored individuals for their NGOs which carry names like “Global South Climate Emergency” or some other Davos-approved slop. We’ve gotten so used to everything the government touches being a form of treasury looting for their cronies that it actually sounds strange to hear the Secretary of Commerce talk about building real power generation, building manufacturing, and building financial dominance.

Imagine that.