GOP voters voice support for Ukraine aid; Rand releases 'National Dynamism' report; Millennials' home equity outpaces Boomers at same age
NYT: After Ukraine Aid Vote, Republicans Braced for Backlash Find Little
“Anything we can do to support the Ukrainian victory over the Russian invasion would be a positive thing for the world,” said Randy Manley, a retiree from Strongsville, Ohio, who said he planned to vote for Mr. Trump in November.
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“It’s a security issue,” said Elyssa Olgin, who works in public relations and lives in Solon. “I have two boys; I don’t want them fighting there.”
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Representative Ashley Hinson, Republican of Iowa, said she found voters changed their minds when she explained why she voted for Ukraine aid after meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.
“People understand, especially hearing someone like Mike Johnson tee it up and talk about how all these things are interconnected: Russia, Iran and China,” she said.
RAND: ‘The Sources of Renewed National Dynamism’ report explores the challenge of renewing competitive dynamism in the face of national decline; among the key findings:
The United States has all the preconditions for a potential agenda of anticipatory renewal. It is not consigned by international politics to further relative decline, especially regarding China (which has its own problems in all of these areas). The United States is not in the position of the USSR in the 1980s. It has tremendous residual strengths and a proven capacity for resilience and renewal. It has the scale and industrial and scientific foundations to remain one of the great powers at the apex of world politics. It has a rich reservoir of social actors capable of conducting the same sort of campaign for reform and renewal that occurred in Victorian-era Britain and turn-of-the-20th-century United States.
Many powerful barriers stand in the way of a process of national renewal. They include a poisoned information environment, deep and seemingly entrenched political polarization, and an elite class that has not yet demonstrated the sort of widespread commitment to the common good of earlier eras. In one sense, the United States is ideally poised to undertake yet another of its repeated eras of reform and renewal, one that would fortify U.S. social and political stability and strengthen the roots of its global power. The question is whether, at the beginning of the 21st century, the United States confronts new and deadly threats to the solidarity, understanding, and commitment necessary for another round of national renewal.
Conor Sen on Millennials’ home equity:
