Donald Trump’s election — and his vitriol against his predecessors, former policymakers and his opponents — led many internationalists to retreat and voluntarily undergo an American version of Mao Zedong’s self-education campaign. Yet it turns out that the American public, when asked, evidences a great deal of common sense about the nation’s role in the world.
According to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs 2019 survey, published in September, large percentages of Americans — across parties — support U.S. security alliances, believe trade is good for their country, and favor promoting democracy and human rights. In fact, some of the expressions of public commitment to internationalism are at higher levels than at any time in the Chicago Council’s nearly 50 years of surveys. CONT.
Robert B. Zoellick, Washington Post