Liberal Myths of the “Good Old Ways”
27th November 2024
How will the United States foreign policy establishment and their supporting commentariat respond to the shocking political resurrection of Donald Trump? Will they grapple with painful realities and examine the deficiencies of foreign and economic policy that helped lead to this point of crisis?
Or will they do what they did last time and tell self-serving and fictitious stories about the past, a morality tale of virtuous internationalists battling primitive isolationists — the old Good Old Ways versus Orange Man Bad?
An early indication is offered by David Sanger’s article in the New York Times which is so pervaded by standard liberal nostalgia it almost writes itself.