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I like George W. Bush. I don’t think he was anything other than an average President during extraordinary times, but I’ve always liked him personally. I respected the discipline he used to stay out of the fray when President Obama was in office; former Presidents should avoid speaking ill of their successors. That unofficial rule was broken today in a speech with elements that targeted President Trump.
Had he spoken out about Obamacare, the Middle East, or any of a plethora of failing policies President Obama put forth, I’d be okay with his indirect criticism of President Trump today. Coming out now after eight years of silence is unfortunate. He chose to hold his tongue through the last presidency and come out swinging with this presidency. The lack of consistency makes his current stances moot.
One thing the media has intentionally missed in Bush’s speech is that it wasn’t truly anti-Trump. They want you to believe that it was and will highlight the few instances when Bush appears to call out the President’s mentality and agenda, but they’ve excluded the portions of the speech that focus on failures by the left. This wasn’t an anti-Trump speech, though he shouldn’t have attacked the President’s agenda at all. It was a pro-globalist speech that condemned elements of both sides of the political aisle. Moreover, it highlights one of our biggest problems as a nation: the lack of experience young people have with facing global threats. They don’t remember the Cold War. They won’t acknowledge the failings of their pet ideologies such as socialism. They didn’t grow up with a media industry that retained acceptable levels of trust.
If it didn’t have a blatant push for globalism and indirect attacks on a sitting president, I’d say the speech was very good.
Now for the conspiracy theory: with Senator John McCain coming out for globalism last week, and Bush coming out with the same basic message this week, is someone pulling their strings? Are we really in the midst of a “deep state” push to make people on the political right abandon concepts of sovereignty and nationalism in favor of a globalist agenda? I’m not a conspiracy theorist. They’re not putting anything in the water to turn the frogs gay. However, back-to-back speeches from two of the most powerful Republicans in the nation jabbing at Trump and pushing for globalism is enough to raise an alarm bell or two.
It’s conspicuous that Bush mentioned the last 70 years in his speech. It reminded me of something McCain said in an interview in July about punishing Russia and Vladimir Putin:
“Does anyone doubt his intentions of undermining American supremacy, undermining democracy, the principles of freedom, and all of the things that have epitomized Europe and the world since the end of World War II? For the last 70 years we’ve had a new world order. And that is now under severe stress not only in Europe but all over the world.”
Cue the conspiratorial dun dun dunnnnn.
The most likely scenario is that two known neoconservative Republican globalists happened to be speaking a few days apart. Plugging in jabs at Trump were natural and not coordinated. They both believe the United States should be active across the world, so their push for a globalist agenda is less newsworthy than a Kardashian wardrobe malfunction. That’s probably what happened. If Mitt Romney makes a speech next week about embracing the global community, I’ll start to get worried.
The problem with their globalist message
Whether it’s conspiracy or coincidence that these two speeches have drawn the media’s spotlight is irrelevant. Plenty of people will hear the speeches or read the transcripts, so the important task now is to remind people why these views are not righteous. They can sound righteous. Globalism is actually pretty easy to sell to liberals, conservatives, and everyone in between as long as they don’t dig beneath the surface or consider long-term ramifications.
Before I address the message President Bush and Senator McCain put out, it’s important to understand the root cause for confusion from the current White House. Arguably the biggest challenge with President Trump’s foreign policy is that it means different things to different people. His ambiguity in both message and action have some people hearing him call for isolationism while others read interventionism into his words. They all know he pushes for nationalism, but does “America First” mean we ignore the rest of the world, manipulate them to do our bidding, or bully them to succumb to our will? Frankly, nobody knows for sure and actions towards all three variations of “America First” have been taken or hinted at since the President took office.
Both of these speeches were pleading for America to avoid nationalist principles. They were intended to make it seem appealing for the United States to continue down the road of intervention that we’ve been on for the aforementioned last 70 years.
They want us to police the world, or as Bush said: “For more than 70 years, the presidents of both parties believed that American security and prosperity were directly tied to the success of freedom in the world.”
They say pushing democracy is our responsibility, or as McCain called it, “the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain ‘the last best hope of earth’.”
They paint nationalism as a threat to the country’s prosperity. Bush summed it up by saying, “Economic, political and national security challenges proliferate, and they are made worse by the tendency to turn inward.”
They tell us our standing as the world’s leader is the secret to our success. McCain made a plea to this end that was intended to pull at our heartstrings while reminding us that we’re actually helping ourselves. “We have done great good in the world. That leadership has had its costs but we have become incomparably powerful and wealthy as we did.”
All of these globalist messages are framed powerfully and intended to generate a sense of patriotism that turns into globalism instead of nationalism. What they don’t do is convey the shortcomings of their agenda.
Briefly:
- It started with WWII (which we only got involved with AFTER we were attacked), but it hasn’t been truly successful ever since. The only notable example of globalism succeeding since then is the acceleration of the Soviet Union’s demise, though an argument can also be made that it would have collapsed regardless of our interventions.
- Sovereignty is a two-way street. Just as we shouldn’t want others to interfere in our business, so too should we not impose our business onto others.
- Anything can be defined as a “national interest” to promote the globalist agenda.
- Treaties, acts of terrorism against Americans, and acts of war against America are the only justifications of foreign actions. We can and should lead by example. That means leaving others alone just as we’d want them to leave us alone. Refer back to point #2.
- Free trade happens outside of intervention. In fact, a lack of interventionism is the fastest course towards freeing up the global market for American businesses.
The list of arguments against globalism could go on and on. There are much better arguments than I could make that have already been published. My point is that we shouldn’t be isolationists but we also shouldn’t promote a globalist agenda. Bush and McCain seem to think the scales for the argument are tipping towards isolationism, but that’s not really true. President Trump’s threats have not materialized in an isolationist way. Those paying close enough attention might come to the conclusion that he’s been more of a globalist than he billed himself as during the campaign.
That these two powerful Republicans are trying to push him and our nation even closer to the globalist abyss is telling about their long-term agenda. Unfortunately, the effects of their agenda if it comes to pass won’t just hurt us long-term. If we go down their road, we’ll start feeling the pain as a nation sooner rather than later.
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