Give the drafters credit for trying gamely to reform Trump’s problematic catch phrase label – “America first” – by reinterpreting it to mean something more benign.
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Is the writer saying that there is something malignant in the slogan “America first”? Globalist, I suppose.
The phrase was used by the World War II era isolationist movement. So there is some legitimate baggage with the phrase.
However, Mr. Trump’s policies have not been isolationist. He has approached our foreign policy from a different angle, and not taken previously stated policy on faith.
But ultimately, this NSS is evolutionary, not revolutionary. The overall goals remain the same, but with a more realistic and less idealistic emphasis.
Wikipedia has an entry on the America First Committee just prior to WW2. Its proponents included future SC Justice Potter Stewart, the Kennedy clan’s Sargent Shriver, and future US President Gerald Ford.