The thing is that the entire subject has no business in the Republican Party period. I could see Democrats perhaps debating it because they believe in centralized economic planning and the wisdom of "experts" rather than the market making important investment decision. Maybe they'd try to make their perfect "green and sustainable" cities. It would still be out there even for them, but they're the party that is supposed to be constantly pushing things to the left. Even if the GOP isn't consistently "small government" any more, it still believes in less government and less economic planning when compared to Democrats.
So when this idea is defended on the grounds that we should "look outside the box", it really is asking us to leave the "box" of believing in a market economy, to jump into the box of very large scale central planning. That may be where Trump wants to take the GOP, but there's no way in hell I'd want anything to do with that.
This laughingstock of an idea isn’t being debated in the abstract. We have, over and over and over and over and over given example after example of this failing. Yet MAGAs believe, in their heart, despite all evidence to the contrary, this will all be just so good.
The JFK Space Race comparison is faulty. By the time JFK pushed the idea of sending a man to the moon, the USSR already launched a satellite and put a man in space.
Top it off with the flying cars and the bonuses for all the new babies in this glorious MAGA city is proof that his mind no longer occupies the reality realm
This is no different than the left pushing green energy as the answer to replace fossil fuels despite the glaring evidence of its failures
It’s hard enough to fight the far left to keep them from bankrupting the country with their cockamamie plans. We don’t need the MAGAs joining them