The U.S. Should Not Lead The World
Posted on AllSides July 23rd, 2020
From The Right
ANALYSIS
The international complaint about the Trump administration is thunderous: America doesn’t lead. U.S. leadership has disappeared. The president has squandered the country’s tradition of leadership. The administration is driving away Washington’s closest allies.
This is a particularly sharp criticism to make of a Republican president. Perhaps the one consistent claim made by Republican presidential candidates over the years is the importance of American leadership. Leadership to do what is far less clear. But the GOP treats most any foreign problem, at least those evident under a Democratic administration, as a...