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Tracing America’s decline, the speaker highlights Pennsylvania’s history as an industrial and revolutionary epicenter. He laments how the state’s economic vitality—once rooted in steel manufacturing and innovation—has dwindled due to leftist policies, union corruption, and deindustrialization. The emergence of socialist unions in the 1960s shifted production out of Pennsylvania, leading to a literal and metaphorical decay exemplified by Philadelphia’s crumbling cityscape and abandoned factories.