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Let the Detroit automakers fail and be restructured into railroad rolling stock companies.
Let the automakers in the South continue on for a few more years, until it becomes painfully clear that the fuel to run personal automobiles has become prohibitively scarce and expensive.
Let the Southern GOP burn up the last of the goodwill, the last of the credibility, the last of any claim they might have had to saving the U.S. economy, and let them bet on a dying horse.
Then let Detroit go back to being the industrial center of America, building vehicles we can actually use in the future.