Strategic silence is advised when your enemy is making a mistake. The principles in the RNC platform include sealing the border, carrying out the largest deportation in American history, ending inflation, becoming the dominant energy producer, stopping outsourcing, tax cuts for workers, defending the Constitution, preventing World War III, and rebuilding cities. It also includes strengthening the military, keeping the US dollar as the world's reserve currency, protecting Social Security and Medicare without cuts, and opposing changes to the retirement age.