During COVID-19, back when almost everyone still insisted the virus had naturally jumped from a bat in a wet market to humans, President Donald Trump was perhaps the first to state clearly and loudly that it was an engineered virus leaked from a lab.
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it → insist → lab
At the time, Trump’s assertions were met with immense contempt from his political rivals and the legacy media.
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assertions → meet → rivals
Today, however, we know Trump was right: The lab-leak hypothesis is widely acknowledged as the most plausible origin story.
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hypothesis → know → story
A similarly heated debate is unfolding right now between Trump and the leaders of Big Tech — most notably Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic.
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debate → unfold → Anthropic
Amodei has recently claimed that AI development should be paused or put on hold, demanding sweeping government regulations.
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development → claim → regulations
Just as he did during the pandemic, Trump is applying simple logic and sound judgment.
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Trump → do → logic
He insists that robots are not about to take over, enslave, or destroy humanity, and he calls on tech executives to stop the fearmongering.
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he → insist → fearmongering
In this race, the leader takes all, and China is right around the corner.
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China → take → corner
Beijing will not shackle its own developers with heavy-handed regulations or existential ethics committees.
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Beijing → shackle → regulations
If America slows down to indulge in philosophical panic, the axis of evil will simply pass us by and dominate the future.
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axis → slow → future
For decades, the United States has served as the world’s democratic force for good.
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States → serve → good
If restricted regulations paralyze American companies while autocratic regimes develop unchecked, superpowerful AI capabilities, the global consequences will be catastrophic.
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consequences → paralyze → capabilities
To protect the free world, America — not China — must possess the technological upper hand.
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America → protect → hand
It’s basic common sense.
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It → ’ → ?
Trump rightly finds it absurd that private companies are actively begging the government to regulate them.
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companies → find → them
Consider the irony: Big Tech companies already enforce massive, aggressive internal regulation.
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companies → consider → regulation
They monitor every post on social media, remove content at will, and shadow-ban users.
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They → monitor → users
OpenAI even recently indicated it would share flagged user conversations directly with law enforcement.
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it → indicate → enforcement
Anyone who uses social media knows that platform algorithms swiftly scrub violent or inflammatory posts (well, unless those posts happen to be directed against Israel — where the enforcement criteria somehow becomes remarkably flexible, but that is a subject for another column).
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that → use → column
Given that tech corporations already police their own platforms around the clock, why drag the federal government into the fold?
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corporations → give → fold
To draft any meaningful policy, they will inevitably have to sit in closed rooms and take cues from the very same tech executives who lobbied for the rules in the first place.
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who → draft → place
What logic is there in creating yet another sluggish, bureaucratic government oversight apparatus that relies entirely on the industry it purports to govern?
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it → create → industry
At its core, the clash between Trump and Anthropic is an ideological collision between free-market capitalism and a dangerous creeping trend toward state-controlled socialism.
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clash → creep → socialism
Trump represents classic American values: individual liberty, capitalism, minimal regulation, and trust in private enterprise to innovate and self-correct.
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Trump → represent → enterprise
Conversely, Anthropic’s push for state intervention feels less like technological stewardship and more like an attempt to introduce a form of techno-socialism — a system where government control supersedes market dynamics.
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control → feel → dynamics
This isn’t a high-minded debate in an academic lounge; it is a live threat playing out in the streets and at the ballot box.
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it → play → box
Across the nation — from local races in New York to key midterm contests in states like Michigan — self-proclaimed socialist and communist-aligned candidates are no longer lingering on the political margins.
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candidates → proclaim → margins
They are running for office, winning primaries, and attempting to drag American governance toward state-planned tyranny.
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They → run → tyranny
While the political Left pushes to expand the administrative state — with radicals simultaneously demanding to “abolish ICE” while multiplying federal bureaucracies — conservatives like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) have long pointed out the stark truth: True freedom requires dismantling the overgrown federal machine, starting with abolishing the IRS.
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freedom → push → IRS
When Dario Amodei and Big Tech executives beg for federal regulations, they are willingly handing the keys of America’s most powerful technological engine to this very same political class.
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they → beg → class
Giving an expanding, centralizing government control over AI isn’t “responsible oversight” — it is the Trojan horse of techno-socialism.
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it → give → socialism
In a true capitalist system, the response to a perceived technological risk is not state intervention and surrendering power to state bureaucrats; it is market competition.
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it → perceive → bureaucrats
If one company develops AI models in a way that consumers or businesses find unsafe or irresponsible, rival companies will innovate safer, superior products to beat them in the open market.
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companies → develop → market
Ultimately, this debate is about the core essence of America: Will the nation remain a beacon of individual liberty and free enterprise with limited government, or will it succumb to the rising tide of centralized, socialist control?
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it → remain → control
Trump is standing practically alone at the gate, warning the public against the scare tactics of Amodei and the tech elite.
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Trump → stand → Amodei
Behind all the high-tech jargon, Trump sees the big picture, the real danger.
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Trump → see → picture
What the 80-year-old president understands about freedom, power, markets, the human drive, and the socialist threat to America, Anthropic’s young CEO has yet to learn.
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CEO → understand → America
He is also a contributor to JNS, focusing on electoral strategy and political analysis.
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He → focus → strategy
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