A new American exceptionalism
This is what Quid's National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan pledged,“Everything we do in our foreign policy and national security will be measured by a basic metric: Is it going to make life better, safer, and easier for working families?”
Quid made similar statements. “There’s no longer a bright line between foreign and domestic policy. Every action we take in our conduct abroad, we must take with American working families in mind. Advancing a foreign policy for the middle class demands urgent focus on our domestic economic renewal.”
But Quid was going to take us back to the days where we did not speak of American Exceptionalism . We were no better than any other nation and had to submit to the global community above our own interests . America first was something Trump said ,,,,, not Quid .
Sullivan ,sounding a lot like Trump , wrote “The core purpose of American foreign policy must be to protect and defend the American way of life,”
News to Sullivan and Quid . Trump was elected in 2016 by the middle class because in part he lambasted the traditional foreign policy establishment for NOT keeping American interests first . Trade deals, climate deals ,immigration policy ,foreign military adventures were implicated by Trump to be related to a decline of the American middle class. Quid has promised a return to traditional foreign policy . Then when he came in ,he began implementing polices that are harmful to the middle class like the cancellation of the Keystone pipeline .He relaxed policies Trump put in place to secure the southern border .
So there appears to be a disconnect between Quid's Administration rhetoric and polices they adopt .