This looks more like Carter II, sort of Carter on steroids.
Roman soldiers found at Pompei had construction tools on their backs. This is because the Army was used by the Romans for many civil construction projects.
Liberals have often imagined the armed forces as retasked to civil and foriegn relief missions. This would be combined with new resources dedicated to new, purely civilian agencies.
American leadership would take the form of international development. The idea is that this would generate so much good will, that we would have more power and international esteem than ever.
Carter and even Clinton learned the hard way that this “carrot only” diplomacy not only does not work, it can be disasterous in the extreme.
I used to compare him to Carter, but not any more. He makes Carter look like Reagan.
He seems to think that whatever he concocts in his mind is reality, and yet he can't even point to any positive past results for his ideas.
His ideas have all been tried in the past, with disastrous results. But like all hard leftists, he thinks history begins with him, too arrogant and stupid to look at the past. He's thinks he's smarter than they were, yet he can't put two sentences together without a teleprompter.
He will have to make hard decisions every day, yet he voted "present" 130 times as a lowly state senator. What was so tough about those decisions? Men like Putin will run him over.
If elected, he may very well compete for Worst President in History. Men like Putin will run him over.