Source: Liberalism.org
by Emma Ashford
“The last thirty years have been a period of pronounced overextension in U.S. foreign policy, and it has upset the balance between promoting liberal values overseas and protecting liberalism at home. Worse, the two primary camps in today’s foreign policy debates — Trump’s America-First nationalism and Biden’s global democracy-vs-autocracy framework — are simultaneously protectionist and militarily interventionist. If liberals are to build an effective domestic agenda, they instead need to tether it to a more modest, realist foreign policy capable of protecting American democracy and prosperity at home. This need has only been heightened by the Trump administration’s disastrous war with Iran, which looks increasingly likely to seriously strain the American economy.” (03/27/26)
https://www.liberalism.org/p/realism-idealism-and-a-balanced-foreign-policy