Over the last 30 years there have been plenty of attempts if you will to build out fiber. Some did lay fiber, others seem to have not.

The Biden bill did get my parents fiber in rural Wisconsin because the local ISP actually wanted to deliver Internet.

I think the government was hoping that raising and holding providers accountable with the bandwidth tests would have solved that but enforcement is one place this is falling down.

That pattern extends back to the Clinton administration.

Wasn’t Kamala Harris part of a big push to provide better internet to rural American? I thought I remembered reading $25B in federal funding with essentially 0 marginal positive outcome

I don't know as much about this issue, but definitely do not doubt that, and the fact that this has not carried on indicates more and deeper issues (the video does mention about the progress of the project being too slow under Biden and does broader criticism than towards Musk/Trump). But corruption being a thing during previous governments does not make the current overt corruption better.

Neutron nowhere to be seen. A rocket thats on falcon 9 scale which is already being deprecated. Sure there’s chance neutron to be cheaper than starship and rocketlab does bunch of other things. But I’m pessimistic.