The his is such a well thought out argument for remaining engaged in world economic affairs and promoting USA good will. The failure to realize this small marble we all inhabit has continuous effects on everything we do or fail to do will lead to deepening costs of not just dollars but influence and needed cooperation ahead.
“America First” is the political equivalent of a toddler yelling “Mine!” at a sandbox it didn’t build. It's not patriotism; it’s cowardice wrapped in nostalgia drag. We've tried this isolationist, protectionist tantrum before: it gave us the Great Depression, Lindbergh’s Nazi-adjacent mutterings, and decades of foreign policy blowback. Trump’s tantrum tariffs are Smoot-Hawley with a spray tan, delusional economic self-sabotage masquerading as strength. And when the fallout hits, the MAGA crowd won’t blame the billionaires lighting the matches, they’ll blame immigrants, queers, and women for the fire. Again.
Is it any worse than people silently and deliberately making America last? Perhaps the impetus for “foreign policy blowback” are connected to recent revelations that our “promoting democracy abroad” was behind toppling leaders who wouldn’t get 100% on board with the State Department’s arm of color revolutions.
No one is “silently making America last.” That’s a fever dream brewed in a bunker full of Fox News reruns and TikToks about the Deep State. What is happening, loud and clear, is a deliberate campaign of self-sabotage by men so allergic to complexity that they think diplomacy means yelling “FREEDOM” at the United Nations while cutting school lunch funding back home.
Do you think “America First” is the antidote to shady foreign policy? It IS shady foreign policy—sloppier, louder, and more corrupt. Yes, the U.S. has a blood-stained foreign policy record, but replacing CIA coup architects with Jared Kushner’s WhatsApp messages and golf-course diplomacy isn’t an upgrade—it’s a gift. You’re not resisting empire. You’re handing it over to oligarchs with God complexes and fake gold toilets.
And let’s not pretend MAGA nationalism is some grassroots rebellion against neocolonialism. It’s just the same empire, turned inward. The cruelty doesn’t stop—it gets redirected at trans kids, immigrants, and every woman who’s ever rolled her eyes at a man explaining the Constitution wrong.
So no, “America First” isn’t some brave rejection of interventionism. It’s cosplay patriotism for people who think solidarity is un-American and that history began in 2015.
The his is such a well thought out argument for remaining engaged in world economic affairs and promoting USA good will. The failure to realize this small marble we all inhabit has continuous effects on everything we do or fail to do will lead to deepening costs of not just dollars but influence and needed cooperation ahead.
“America First” is the political equivalent of a toddler yelling “Mine!” at a sandbox it didn’t build. It's not patriotism; it’s cowardice wrapped in nostalgia drag. We've tried this isolationist, protectionist tantrum before: it gave us the Great Depression, Lindbergh’s Nazi-adjacent mutterings, and decades of foreign policy blowback. Trump’s tantrum tariffs are Smoot-Hawley with a spray tan, delusional economic self-sabotage masquerading as strength. And when the fallout hits, the MAGA crowd won’t blame the billionaires lighting the matches, they’ll blame immigrants, queers, and women for the fire. Again.
Is it any worse than people silently and deliberately making America last? Perhaps the impetus for “foreign policy blowback” are connected to recent revelations that our “promoting democracy abroad” was behind toppling leaders who wouldn’t get 100% on board with the State Department’s arm of color revolutions.
No one is “silently making America last.” That’s a fever dream brewed in a bunker full of Fox News reruns and TikToks about the Deep State. What is happening, loud and clear, is a deliberate campaign of self-sabotage by men so allergic to complexity that they think diplomacy means yelling “FREEDOM” at the United Nations while cutting school lunch funding back home.
Do you think “America First” is the antidote to shady foreign policy? It IS shady foreign policy—sloppier, louder, and more corrupt. Yes, the U.S. has a blood-stained foreign policy record, but replacing CIA coup architects with Jared Kushner’s WhatsApp messages and golf-course diplomacy isn’t an upgrade—it’s a gift. You’re not resisting empire. You’re handing it over to oligarchs with God complexes and fake gold toilets.
And let’s not pretend MAGA nationalism is some grassroots rebellion against neocolonialism. It’s just the same empire, turned inward. The cruelty doesn’t stop—it gets redirected at trans kids, immigrants, and every woman who’s ever rolled her eyes at a man explaining the Constitution wrong.
So no, “America First” isn’t some brave rejection of interventionism. It’s cosplay patriotism for people who think solidarity is un-American and that history began in 2015.