Today, if we limn the outlines of each party's populist wings, we respectively find the "Bernie Bros" and "MAGA." While differing in many respects on their proposed solutions, both believe elitists are infringing on their rights and obstructing their pursuit of happiness.
The loss of American lives and trillions of dollars in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars and reconstructions-notably the failure to find Saddam Hussein's "Weapons of mass destruction" and the abysmal "Skedaddle" from Kabul and the return of the Taliban to power-have disillusioned both parties' populist wings and millions of other Americans about military interventions abroad, especially those directly involving our military personnel.
While there have been rare exceptions of cataclysmic attacks bringing foreign affairs to the forefront and uniting Americans behind a chosen course, the last decade has revealed how party affiliation has been determinative in how the public views foreign affairs.
The populist then expends their pent-up frustration by assailing the interventionist and/or kinetic foreign policy of the disfavored party.
What is speeding the bridging of the partisan divide is that within each major party, their pacifist/isolationist wing is growing and impacting both parties' foreign policies.
As each pacificist-isolationist wing expands through their grassroots activism, public primaries, and internal national and state party elections, they will no longer have to mute their opposition to their establishment's foreign policy decisions.
In short order, the populist wings in each party will become the establishment, making both domestic and foreign policy decisions.
https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/03/populism-pacifism-and-isolationism-part-2-the-present/
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