Trump and Sanders talk big in ways that would shrink America's stature. Look for guidance instead to 20th-century strategists like Churchill and Kennan.
Midwesterners longing for a return to a manufacturing heyday of the 1960s need to look elsewhere for answers than to the misleading slogans of Sanders and Trump.
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