While some Republicans slam President Biden for betraying Afghans, Trumpists are already mulling anti-refugee primary campaigns in 2022. EricLevitz writes
Photo: Diego Radames/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images During the Trump era, the war in Afghanistan was a fault line in red America. The president and his associated pseudo-intellectuals derided the occupation as a globalist fiasco. Dropping needlessly large bombs on suspected terrorists in Afghanistan was consistent with an “America First” foreign policy; expending U.S. lives and dollars on propping up the Afghan government was not.
But the past is a foreign country. Today, the subject of Afghanistan is more divisive among Democrats than it is among Republicans. Perhaps a perfectly executed troop drawdown would have caused Trumpists some cognitive dissonance . As is, the America First crowd had little trouble lambasting Biden for botching their hero’s Afghanistan policy. And of course, traditional Republicans have relished the opportunity to excoriate a Democratic president for bringing peace with dishonor .
In his third statement, Trump’s exhortation that Americans should be evacuated first ceased to imply that Afghans should be brought out second. Rather, American equipment was priority No. 2; America’s Afghan allies did not make the list. “First you bring out all of the American citizens. Then you bring out ALL equipment. Then you bomb the bases into smithereens—AND THEN YOU BRING OUT THE MILITARY,” Trump explained.
Miller supplemented this Pan-western hate speech with a dose of U.S.-specific xenophobic demagoguery, telling Fox News that those calling for refugee resettlement in the U.S. were not in the business of “solving a humanitarian crisis” but rather were trying to accomplish “an ideological objective — to change America.
Yet the overwhelming majority of House Republicans voted against this faction in July. And anti-Afghan-refugee sentiment remains marginal among Hill Republicans today. Even Trump has not explicitly called for barring all such refugees from the U.S. but merely for prioritizing the rescue of American nationals in Afghanistan.
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