Progressive nationalism? Biden the internationalist has been forced to face up to a home truth
Aug 27, 2021
3 minutes
By David Smith WASHINGTON
For former president Donald Trump, beating the drum of “America first” was an obsession. “The future doesn’t belong to the globalists,” he once told the UN. “The future belongs to patriots.”
Last year, he was rejected by voters in favour of Joe Biden, a committed internationalist who vowed: “America is back.” Yet the past week has led some to question whether a strain of the “America first” mantra lives on.
In a speech last week, a
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