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entering the US.6
Considering this history,
the battle cry of
America First seems
to be an apt slogan for
the Trump administration.
An anti-immigration
stance combined
with fears of foreigninspired
terrorism,
where ”Catholicism and
Judaism” have been
superseded by Islam as
a threat to the ”American
Way of Life.” Where
East and South Europeans,
Asians and Africans
have been superseded
by Mexicans and Central
Americans as dangerous
invaders. Where
”circling the wagons”
no longer means protecting
settlers from
the native population,
but support to contempt
of multilateralism that
makes the policymakers
of an entire nation
prepared to expose the
whole world to lethal
danger. A more apt slogan
than America First
and Let´s Make America
Great Again would
probably be the French
President Emmanuel
Macron’s alternative
motto Making our Planet
Great Again.
If Joe Biden sincerely
means that “climate
change is an existential
threat to our future
and that remaining in
the Paris Agreement is
the best way to protect
our children and global
leadership”7 combined
with his experience of
and support to international
cooperation, he
might become an able
president, in spite of his
advanced age and occasional
gaffs. Let us hope
that he and the many
well-intentioned and
rational US citizens will
be able to restore faith
in their institutions and
their capacity to engage
in mulitareal cooperation.
1 Burns, Alexander
and Jonathan Martin
(2019) “Joe Biden
Announces 2020 Run for
President, After Months
of Hesitation” The New
Times, April 25.
2 The Covention
intends to control transboundary
movements
of hazardous waste and
their disposal
3 Haberman, Maggie
and David E. Sanger
(2016) “Transcript: Donald
Trump Expounds His
Foreign Policy Views”
The New York Times,
March 26.
4 America First: A
Budget Blueprint to Make
America Great Again.
5 Quoted in Higham,
John (1981) Strangers
in the Land: Patterns
of American Nativism,
1860 – 1925. New York:
Atheneum, p. 272.
6 Most of the information
above is based on
Higham´s book.
7 Joe Biden´s twitter
on May 31, 2017.
Jan Lundius holds a
PhD. on History of Religion
from Lund University
and has served as
a development expert,
researcher and advisor
at SIDA, UNESCO, FAO
and other international
organisations.
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