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Back fusion as a strategic energy bet, but fund materials, tritium, regulation, and supply chains before promising cheap power.
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The specific delta between this position and the current mainstream approaches of both major parties.
The 2024 Republican platform supports all-source energy production, nuclear power, permitting reform, and emerging industries; fusion fits that rhetoric, but the platform does not spell out the public research and regulatory bottlenecks needed to make fusion real. The 2024 Democratic platform supports clean-energy research, public labs, climate innovation, and zero-carbon technologies, but fusion is not a central named priority in the national platform. The Innovation Party's delta is specificity: fund the test infrastructure, tritium, materials, supply chains, workforce, and proportional regulation that commercialization depends on.
Libertarian energy policy is right to warn that government can turn technology bets into political favoritism. This issue answers that with milestone-based support, shared facilities, and multiple competing designs. It rejects the conclusion that government should step away from a field where the basic bottlenecks are public goods and the upside is national-scale.
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