Thursday, June 2, 2016

The Most Fearsome Hawk of All: Donald Trump's Careless, Brutal Plans for the U.S. Put the World in Peril

Over the Memorial Day weekend, Salon published an important piece by David Niose about Donald Trump’s incipient fascism and what that reveals about American militarism. Let’s just say that his success is not likely a sign that we are headed toward a new kinder, gentler foreign policy.

Trump’s use of the term “America First” doesn’t harken back to pre-WWII isolationism as many people want to believe. He himself undoubtedly had no idea that it had that meaning when he said it, he just knew he’d heard it before. What he meant is “America will be Number One,” which isn’t the same thing at all....
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/donald-trumps-plans-will-put-world-peril.


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