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America First isn't isolationist, it's destructionist

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Latika M Bourke
Mar 06, 2025
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The prevailing orthodoxy in trying to understand Donald Trump’s methods has been to try and square them with the idea that they must ultimately result in an outcome that projects America’s goodness.

It has been an understandable if not misguided approach; after all, Pax-Americana is the only America most of us have known.

But this has been one of two fund…

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