In Time, Ian Bremmer makes a key point about the 2020 presidential election. The U.S. policymaking elite (“the blob”) and its militarized interventionist foreign policy is threatened by popular rejection. According to a recent poll, substantial majorities of both Democrats and Republicans want to put the era of Endless War behind us.
No matter what party they claim allegiance to, Americans favor a foreign policy that resists entanglements abroad, the survey found—and it’s not limited to conservative libertarians on the right and liberal pacifists on the left. In every age group polled, respondents exhibited a waning appetite for the obligations and impositions of imperial governance.
Source: How Americans View Foreign Policy in the Trump Era | Time≈
