[The Urban Sombrero]

“The West” has been, since WW II, seen as a powerful block of nations, free trade, free speech, free people, champions of human rights, vehement opponents of tyranny and brutality and dictators across the globe. “Mr. Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL,” said Ronald Reagan. John F. Kennedy said that to oppose freedom, to attack freedom, is to be an enemy of the United States. The Bush Doctrine sought to sow the seeds of democracy in the Middle East.

IF Trumpian philosophy is exceptionalism and isolationism, IF “America First” turns out to be an abdication of servant leadership, then America will cease to be great. We are a great nation, have been a great nation, but those “IF’s” would compromise that greatness if sustained for long.