America First (policy)

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Political cartoon by Dr. Seuss deriding non-interventionism (1941)

America First refers to a populist political theory in the United States that emphasizes the fundamental notion of "putting America first", which generally involves disregarding global affairs and focusing solely on domestic policy in the United States. This generally denotes policies of non-interventionism, American nationalism, and protectionist trade policy. [1]

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The term was coined by President Woodrow Wilson [2] in his 1916 campaign that pledged to keep America neutral in World War I. A more non-interventionist approach gained prominence in the interwar period (1918–1939); it was also advocated by the America First Committee, a non-interventionist pressure group against U.S. entry into World War II. [3]

Decades later, Donald Trump used the slogan in his 2016 presidential campaign and presidency (2017–2021), emphasizing the U.S.'s withdrawal from international treaties and organizations in the administration's foreign policy. [4] [5] [6] Media critics have derided Trump's use of the America First policy as "America Alone". [7] [8] [9]

History

Origins

A campaign advertisement for the 1927 Chicago mayoral election supporting William Hale Thompson bearing the phrase "America First" "America First" ad from Chicago mayoral election, 1927.jpg
A campaign advertisement for the 1927 Chicago mayoral election supporting William Hale Thompson bearing the phrase "America First"

As a slogan in American political discourse, "America First" originated from the nativist American Party in the 1850s. [10] The motto has been used by both Democratic and Republican politicians in the United States. At the outbreak of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson used the slogan to define his version of neutrality, as did newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. [11] The motto was also chosen by Republican Senator Warren G. Harding during the 1920 presidential election, which he won. [12]

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) used the phrase at the organization's peak in the 1920s, when racist, xenophobic sentiment was widespread; [13] [14] it informed many of their members who ran for political office. [15] The Immigration Act of 1924 sponsored by Washington U.S. representative Albert Johnson proved to legislate xenophobia and white supremacy, excluding immigrants on the basis of ethnicity and national origin in an effort to preserve white racial demographics. [16] Johnson's leading role in the immigration restriction bill elicited strong support from the KKK. [17]

America First is best known as the slogan and foreign policy advocated by the America First Committee, a non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II, which emphasized American nationalism and unilateralism in international relations. The America First Committee's membership peaked at 800,000 paying members in 450 chapters, and it popularized the slogan "America First". [3] While the America First Committee had a variety of supporters in the U.S., the movement was muddled with anti-Semitic and fascist rhetoric. [18] Notable Americans who supported "America First" causes include Elizabeth Dilling, Gerald L. K. Smith, [19] [20] and Charles Lindbergh, [21] while Dr. Seuss derided the policy in a number of political cartoons, linking it to Nazism. [22]

In later periods, the slogan was used by Pat Buchanan, who praised the non-interventionist WWII America First Committee and said "the achievements of that organization are monumental." [23] Buchanan's "call for an America First foreign policy has been compared with the America First Committee." [24]

Donald Trump

"President Trump's Six Months of America First", a video released by the White House

Donald Trump, who had run against Pat Buchanan in the 2000 Reform Party presidential primaries, first revived the slogan in a November 2015 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal . [25] In its early going, the Trump campaign publicized an article by Jeff Kuhner on the World Tribune praising the candidate as a "nationalist who seeks to put America first"; [26] campaign manager Corey Lewandowski (who later published a book with the title) [27] promoted Trump with the phrase; [28] [29] and both Sarah Palin [30] and Chris Christie [31] featured it in their endorsements of Trump. Trump later incorporated the slogan into his daily repertoire following a suggestion by David E. Sanger during an interview with The New York Times in March 2016, borrowing it from an article that appeared earlier in the month in USA Today [32] and written by U.S. diplomat Armand Cucciniello. [33] [34] In subsequent months, without referencing Pat Buchanan's prior usage or the America First Committee, candidate Trump promised that "'America First' would be the major and overriding theme" of his administration, and advocated nationalist, anti-interventionist positions. [35] [34]

Following his election to the presidency, "America First" became the official foreign policy doctrine of the Trump administration. [36] It was a theme of Trump's inaugural address, and a Politico/Morning Consult poll released on January 25, 2017, stated that 65% of Americans responded positively to President Trump's "America First" inaugural message, with 39% viewing the speech as poor. [37]

Trump embraced American unilateralism abroad and introduced policies aimed at undermining transnational organizations such as the European Union -- often deriding them on economic terms [38] [39] [40] [41] -- while acting or threatening to withdraw or reduce U.S. support and participation in others, including NATO [42] [40] [39] [41] and the United Nations [43] [44] [45] [46]

Pursuing his nationalist but non-interventionist "America First" agenda, Trump withdrew (or threatened to withdraw) the United States from numerous international treaties and agreements, including the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Paris Climate Accords, and the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) [46] [44] [43] [47] [45]

In 2017, the administration proposed a federal budget for 2018 with both "Make America Great Again" and "America First" in its title, with the latter referencing its increases to military, homeland security, and veteran spending, cuts to spending that goes towards foreign countries, and 10-year objective of achieving a balanced budget. [48]

The administration branded its 2017 National Security Strategy of the U.S. as "an America First National Security Strategy". The introduction to that document reads "This National Security Strategy puts America first. An America First National Security Strategy is based on American principles, a clear-eyed assessment of U.S. interests, and a determination to tackle the challenges that we face. It is a strategy of principled realism that is guided by outcomes, not ideology." [49]

Trump's use of the slogan was criticized by some for carrying comparisons to the America First Committee; [50] however, Trump denied being an isolationist, and said:

Not isolationist, I’m not isolationist, but I am ‘America First.’ So I like the expression. I’m ‘America First.’ [51]

A number of scholars (such as Deborah Dash Moore), commentators (such as Bill Kristol) and Jewish organizations (including the Anti-Defamation League and Jewish Council for Public Affairs) criticized Trump's use of the slogan because of its historical association with nativism and antisemitism. [51] [52] Others have argued that Trump was never a non-interventionist. [53] Columnist Daniel Larison from The American Conservative wrote that "Trump was quick to denounce previous wars as disasters, but his complaint about these wars was that the U.S. wasn't 'getting' anything tangible from them. He didn't see anything wrong in attacking other countries, but lamented that the U.S. didn't 'take' their resources" and that "he never called for an end to the wars that were still ongoing, but talked only about 'winning' them." [54]

Trump's "America First" policy has been described as a major factor in the perceived increase in the international non-interventionism of the U.S. in the late 2010s, and various media critics such as The New Yorker have described the policy as "America Alone". [7] [8] [9]

Other usage

White nationalist commentator Nick Fuentes has made contemporary use of the phrase, citing Trump and his presidency as an inspiration for the show. America First with Nick Fuentes logo.jpg
White nationalist commentator Nick Fuentes has made contemporary use of the phrase, citing Trump and his presidency as an inspiration for the show.

In mid-2016, while running for a Louisiana Senate seat, David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the KKK, publicly claimed that he was "the first major candidate in modern times to promote the term and policy of America first" [55] (although was preceded by Donald Trump). [25] [33] [34]

Trump's successor as U.S. president, Joe Biden, discontinued many of Trump's COVID-19 -related "America First" policies at the beginning of his presidency, but he initially kept the Trump administration's COVID-19 vaccine export ban in place. [56] As of May 2021, the U.S. had started exporting vaccines out of its borders. [57] The U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack described far-right political commentator Nick Fuentes and former Identity Evropa leader Patrick Casey as leaders of the "America First" movement in a subpoena issued in January 2022. [58]

Following Trump's inauguration, the policy and its phrasing became a subject of international satire through the Every Second Counts video contest inspired by Dutch comedian Arjen Lubach. News satire television programs initially throughout Europe, and later from around the world, comically appealed to Trump to acknowledge their own countries in light of Trump's nationalist slogan, with a narrator mimicking Trump's voice, speech patterns, and exaggerated speaking style. [59] [60] Lubach's initial version, for example, ended by noting that "We totally understand it's going to be America first, but can we just say: The Netherlands second?". [61] [62]

In Spike Lee's film BlacKkKlansman (2018), David Duke and white supremacists are portrayed as repeatedly using the "America First" slogan. [63]

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