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Reactionary nostalgia for yesterday's empire [View all]
From the article:
AFTER A yearlong chaotic faction fight in his administration, Trump has purged the White House of most of its establishment representatives and replaced them with advocates of his "America First" nationalism and militarism....
A growing collection of mainstream commentators has denounced Trump's protectionism, reckless threats of unilateral military action and transactional approach to both allies and antagonists. They have contrasted all this with previous administrations and their imperial policies, which tended to stress "stability" above all else....
In the process, the horror with which many foreign policy commentators--not to mention millions of everyday people--regarded the perpetual wars of the last decade and a half is casually brushed aside as people struggle to keep up with the latest diplomatic outrages committed by Trump's hatchet men and women.
A growing collection of mainstream commentators has denounced Trump's protectionism, reckless threats of unilateral military action and transactional approach to both allies and antagonists. They have contrasted all this with previous administrations and their imperial policies, which tended to stress "stability" above all else....
In the process, the horror with which many foreign policy commentators--not to mention millions of everyday people--regarded the perpetual wars of the last decade and a half is casually brushed aside as people struggle to keep up with the latest diplomatic outrages committed by Trump's hatchet men and women.
To read more:
https://socialistworker.org/2018/05/07/reactionary-nostalgia-for-yesterdays-empire
One area of agreement between both parties is that the Empire must prevail. Trump's version of American exceptionalism is cruder, but the end result is generally the same.
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