Biden must reject isolationism, build broad foreign-policy coalitions

Despite what’s espoused on Tucker Carlson or Joy Reid’s island of populist lunacy, polls show Americans are not isolationist, and there is no overwhelming demand for restraint.

But that won’t stop academic elites and fringe movements from pushing borderline traitorous agendas that align with rogue regimes in China, Iran, and Russia. The media tried to bury it, but last year we witnessed dozens of progressive Democrats wishing to cave to Putin before fecklessly backtracking when they were exposed.

The 2022 midterm elections demonstrated that foreign policy extremism is unpopular. Common sense actions overseas have fairly broad support with the American public, despite unsavory efforts by some to use life-and-death matters as wedge issues.

So, while the Biden administration dropped the ball big time in Afghanistan and could be more decisive in Israel and Latin America, they should seek a new “internationalist caucus” to build on some ongoing foreign policy endeavors.

[I don’t think of Biden as particularly isolationist as much as he’s capricious about his interventionism. Like everything else about Biden, he has no core on foreign policy; he plays checkers against everyone playing 3-D chess. — Ed]