By Breccan F. Thies, The Federalist, December 17, 2024
Breccan F. Thies is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. …
McConnell has spent his career selling America’s domestic interests down the river in favor of funding foreign conflict.
Mitch McConnell wrote an ode to foreign governments on Monday, calling for Donald Trump to reject an America First foreign policy in favor of funding forever wars, doubling down on “free trade,” and lying prostrate before the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
McConnell, in an op-ed for Foreign Affairs magazine, criticized what he described as “right-wing flirtation with isolation and decline,” calling on the incoming government to “restore American hard power.”
“America will not be made great again by those who simply want to manage its decline,” McConnell wrote, making the same tired argument of many hawkish Republicans in eras past. He appears to be enamored by the possibility of spending U.S. tax dollars on any other country except his own, leaving struggling American people in the dust. …
