Some comments on @JDVance1's essay in @theammind.

In short: some insight into the movement, some ideas deserving of more exploration, and some hilarious complaints about the power of libertarians https://americanmind.org/essays/end-the-globalization-gravy-train/

His intro (left)? Perfect. There should always be room for a discussion about long-term priorities. Questioning the extent to which it would be wise to ensure (subsidize?) domestic production (right)? That's a good question!

Now some disagreements/concerns. He talks about those "who fund our political distractions" and suggests manufacturing in the US is needed (a shift from the prior acknowledgement that "not all things" may need to be made here). He's setting up "The Conservative Donor Problem"

On that problem -- "Conservatism, Inc." in Vance's words -- I wonder how much his hated "Washington consensus" (which includes, "the size of government, especially") has actually been tried. If the donors want a smaller government, we should probably be skeptical of their power.

He claims the ideology that he's arguing against has failed. What's one aspect of this failure? Allowing commerce on Sundays; "our society will be much the better for it." Do people still say smdh? I'm not so sure Brent Bozell "dismantled" the position Vance opposes here.

I'd like to hear more about this one. It's quite a charge to blame Milton Friedman for drug abuse in America of the 2010s. And it's reeking of something unbecoming to call Friedman's free-trade views "nonsense."

Here we see the grudges against those libertarians who control everything....

I'm not persuaded that an institutional movement advised that consumption would solve everything; that a commercial obsession dominates a donor class; or that limited-government conservatives exist in size to dominate debate in the body politic.

There's something to explore about US businesses' ties to the CCP, and exposing them is going to be necessary.

I'm not sure that trying to shut down commerce on Sundays, going straight from China to America with all manufacturing, or criticizing libertarians is going to do it.