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1 Issue, June 2024

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A New Exclusion Act

Demonizing China allows Republicans to unite around an authoritarian agenda at home—and unfettered Pentagon profiteering.
IN PROJECT 2025’S MANDATE FOR LEADERSHIP, FEAR AND HATRED OF CHINA HAVE replaced the interests of big business and free-market dogma as the motive forces in Republican politics. The Chinese exclusion agenda has lent new vitality to the Republican policy program. In the wake of Trump’s disorienting triumph over the GOP mainstream, vilification of China is also creating shared ground for the party’s discordant factions. And because animosity to China helps make sense of widespread hardship in the US (which the Biden campaign is simply denying), it helps the otherwise unpopular politics of conservatives gain majority backing. In his framing essay, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts rehearses familiar conservative themes of cultural decay and government interference, but the pivot on which Project 2025 turns marks a new direction for the right. The…
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