A SERIOUS REACTION TO THE BIDEN SPEECH IN PHILADELPHIA

Walter Kitchenman

Normally National Insecurity (NARCOS-LEPSY), focuses on parody. But after President Biden’s speech last night I’d like to explain why this Democrat supports MAGA policies.

Make America Great Again (MAGA) and America First must be defined in order to understand what and whom are threatened by these policies that underpin what I’ll call the Trump Doctrine.

MAGA IS ABOUT FORGOTTEN DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITIES

Make America Great Again has nothing to do with fascism or racism. It is a nod to forgotten working class communities that suffered with globalization. Be it textile manufacturers, autoworkers, or coal miners. Many of these sectors employ disproportionately large numbers of economically mobile minority workers. These communities are often rooted more in family and church, and what might be termed traditional and even conservative values.

What seems like scapegoating of immigrants and the foreign, is actually empathy for the workers and immigrants already here who might suffer from an open border.

Many are loyal Democrats who unexpectedly voted for Trump. Close to a third of the districts that in 2008 and 2012 supported President Obama supported Trump in 2016. Is a third of Obama country suddenly extremist enemies of the Republic or white supremacists?

Minority voters, in particular, benefited from MAGA-focused policies. The large majority of voters in these Democratic communities that voted for Trump in 2016 voted for him again in 2020 by even wider margins. Trump lost the popular vote but still won some of the most loyal Democratic districts in the nation.

AMERICA FIRST IS ABOUT RECOGNIZING AMERICAN LIMITATIONS

There is a reason that the Trump Administration could re-build the US military, cajole NATO into spending more, and sanction China while promoting far better relations with Russia and China than is the case with the Biden Administration. America First is a recognition that there is no American military or economic hegemony in 2022, and, more importantly, President Trump did not seek one through questionable actions based on cynical humanitarian arguments.

America First recognizes that it is not the post-WWII era. The US does not have 60 percent of global GDP. America First recognizes that we cannot micromanage or subsidize the planet at the expense of working communities in the United States. America First is a fight to secure America’s place in a post-hegemonic world. Opponents simply want to pretend that nothing has changed.

The Trump Doctrine is a threat to those globalists of both political parties that often show disdain for traditional values, and ignore the fate of working communities throughout the United States. Globalists who, coincidentally, often profit personally from supposedly climate friendly technologies like EVs and solar panels.

It is a threat to a permanent deep state of national security specialists that risk our lives by profiting directly and indirectly from US intervention, nation-building, and service to a unipolar world that does not exist.