Your post is obviously trying to fan flames, but I'll point out that many people in the US, including, I suspect, most Americans on HN, did not actually think "America first" rhetoric was good.
Pretty much zero mainstream politicians believe that economically "America First" is a bad thing. The only disagreement is in how to implement it, that is to say, in rhetoric and methods instead of in ends.
How is "Build Back Better" any different from "America First" other than the former is using more realpolitik and statecraft and the latter is more of a domestic paleo-con branding.
Build Back Better and America first have extremely different meanings. To 'build back better' doesn't imply a nationalist economic policy. One can build back better equally well with Chinese goods or American ones.
America first connotes a preference for American made things, not only for infrastructure purposes, but more generally.
Independent of any value judgement as to which one's better, it should be clear to anyone that they're different.
They're different slogans, but they ultimately have the same goal: to preserve global hegemony. They're both using the organs of the state and press to advance us toward a new cold war.
If Biden were serious about détente and global cooperation, he would have ended the Trump tariffs on day one.
The difference between "America First" and "Build Back Better" is merely rhetorical. Now it's okay for people on the other side of the isle to engage in sino-bashing for fun and profit without any of the political baggage it had 7 months ago. It's okay now since it's divorced from the hokey red hats and low status swine who just happen to make slightly different consumer choices than you.
> It's okay now since it's divorced from the hokey red hats and low status swine who just happen to make slightly different consumer choices than you.
I'm an unapologetic trump supporter, so I guess I'm the low status swine.
China is an evil country because it supports an evil ideology, communism. There is no redemption for it other than to end the CCP and establish new good governance.
> I'm an unapologetic trump supporter, so I guess I'm the low status swine.
Sure, if you say so. I was more mocking the classism of his position though, as if putting the same basic wine in a more ideologically appealing bottle with a better brand makes it more palatable.
> China is an evil country because it supports an evil ideology, communism. There is no redemption for it other than to end the CCP and establish new good governance.
What is the market place alternative to the dialectic? I don't see them as 'evil' since they have a system that addresses the material problems of their citizens. We have to hope and pray that the market interests align in the right way that more people end up helped than hurt. I don't think we'll ever figure out healthcare.
