Modern-day tribalism, as Virginia’s governor-elect Glenn Youngkin argued in his election campaign, is no way forward for America. At the very same time Washington is experiencing a new ‘Sputnik moment’, with the testing of China’s hypersonic missiles and the launch of anti-satellite weapons, pushing back against a radical ideology that is dividing and destroying America is a matter of the greatest urgency – for the United States itself and for the free world.