Both the mainstream right and left would agree that we are in a tech race with China we can’t afford to lose. And yet, Trump and the GOP Congress are defunding science programs that represent our hope for the future. It sounds insane. What is going on here?
Science is forward-looking, skeptical of the conventional wisdom, and driven by intellectual elites. MAGA is faith-based, reactionary, authoritarian, and deeply skeptical of elites. What could go wrong?
The answer to the question, therefore, is yes, even if the programs have nothing to do with DEI. When the Chinese attack us with space lasers, we will have the Bible to protect us.