But if you’re going to talk about your civic responsibility, as many business leaders do, if you’re going to talk about long-termism as almost all business leaders do these days, what could be a more important long-term issue for American business than American leadership in the world? Historically, the track record of business isn’t great at standing up to bad governments whether it’s in Europe in the 1930s, or in Latin America in the 1970s and it seems to me that business leaders, leaders of global companies especially have a huge interest in the United States standing up for an open global system, in the United States standing up for what I would call Statue-of-Liberty values of openness and freedom, in the United States government making policy based on facts and evidence, not hunch…