Trying to do the impossible?
Trump and his minions run away from everybody, but themselves, for the mess they ARE IN…..
Using Racism also…..
Indeed ?
They seem AFRIAD of outside World that certainly will NOT go away….
It WILL NOT Work….
(America IS slowly getting Less Whitter…Yes Indeed)
The Trump administration, amid a series of foreign and domestic challenges, is redoubling its efforts to blame an array of outside forces for America’s problems and enact policies that block those influences from crossing U.S. borders.
Last week, the United States halted immigration applications from 19 countries. Shortly after, the administration announced an expanded travel ban covering more than 30 countries — “every damn country that’s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies,” in the words of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem….
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These moves — accompanied by a bolstering of tariffs and President Donald Trump’s often racially tinged anti-outsider rhetoric — suggest a goal of sealing off the United States from many foreign people, products and cultures. They also signal that the U.S. is refocusing its attention on its immediate neighborhood in the Western Hemisphere, rather than the broader global landscape that has long been its horizon.
“We are isolating ourselves in a very dangerous way that I don’t think this administration understands,” said former senator Chuck Hagel (R-Nebraska), who served as defense secretary under President Barack Obama. “We will find ourselves isolated — dangerously isolated — in a world where you do not want to be isolated. Once you go down that road, you will not get that back. That is not the way it works.”
Several experts said Trump’s language increasingly echoes the isolationism and anti-immigrant sentiment of the 1920s and 1930s, which downplayed the threat of authoritarianism before World War II. But White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said the administration is trying to protect what is great about America.
“America’s culture and way of life is worth defending and preserving. Full stop,” she said. “Aliens who come to our country en masse and refuse to assimilate to American society only recreate the same conditions that are destroying the nations they fled from. We cannot allow their problems to become America’s problems.”
Trump’s wariness of foreign engagement has not prevented him from aggressively deploying U.S. power overseas on occasion, notably in his push to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. But even that is arguably part of his effort to shut out baleful foreign influences, in this case the flow of illegal drugs. (Many drug policy experts say Venezuela plays a minor role in shipping drugs to the United States.)…
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White House officials said there are many differences between Scandinavian countries and Somalia that are unrelated to race, such as an effective government and a stable economy, and that Trump was referring to those….
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Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff, told Fox News recently that these immigrants’ inability to help their own countries shows why it is reckless to let them into America.
“If Somalians cannot make Somalia successful, why would we think their track record would be any different in the United States?” Miller said. “Go third-world country by third-world country … if these societies all over the world continue to fail, you have to ask yourself, if you bring those societies into our country, and then give them unlimited free welfare, what do we think’s going to happen? You’re going to replicate the conditions that they left over and over and over again.”….
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“My read on Trump is that his instincts are isolationist,” said Kupchan, author of “Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself From the World.” “If he could have his way, he would pull up the drawbridge and focus on Northern America and annex Canada and buy Greenland and take over the Panama Canal, right back to the 19th Century.”
But, he added, international relations are now far too complex for such a far-reaching approach: “The world won’t let go….
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Kupchan noted that the desire to detach the U.S. from the world has flared up before, including in the 1920s and 1930s before America entered World War II. Today, he said, America is tied more closely to other countries by digital, economic and other connections.
“The problem is that strategic detachment was attainable in the 19th century; it’s not attainable today,” Kupchan said. “This instinct to pull the United States back from the world will ultimately fail because it’s not possible.”….
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