Topics in the News: American Exceptionalism
Donald Trump on Energy & Oil
: Sep 27, 2023
No electric vehicles: economic nationalism for auto industry
Trump traveled to the Detroit area on Wednesday night to counterprogram the GOP's second debate. Over and over, Trump attacked Biden and his administration's policies on electric vehicles and clean energy as a threat to the auto industry and the
livelihoods of auto industry workers. "Yesterday Joe Biden came to Michigan to pose for photos at the picket line, but it's his policies that send Michigan auto workers to the unemployment line," Trump said.
Trump's speech was billed as being his "vision for a revival of economic nationalism and our automobile manufacturing lifeline.""My pledge to everyone is that a vote for President Trump means the future of the automobile will
be made in America," said Trump. "It will be fueled by American energy, sourced by American suppliers, it will be sculpted from American aluminum and steel, and it will be built by highly skilled American hands and high-wage, American labor."
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Source: Politico on 2023 Republican primary debate in Simi Valley
Corey Stapleton on War & Peace
: Jul 20, 2023
Wars often start with seemingly harmless nationalism
Corey Stapleton, the first Republican to announce his bid for the 2024 presidential election, has declared that the U.S. and China are economic rivals, not enemies. As a former naval officer and Montana Secretary of State,
Stapleton is advocating for a more cooperative approach between the two global powers. He has condemned the spike in nationalist rhetoric and military-style posturing, which could lead to conflict.
The Republican candidate noted that the U.S. has imposed taxes and tariffs on Chinese imports, attempted to ban the app TikTok, and disrupted tech supply chains.
These measures, he believes, are provocative and unnecessary. He has urged for respect and restraint, suggesting that wars have often started with seemingly harmless nationalistic policies.
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Source: Presidential 2024 campaign press release:AccessWire,"China"
Vivek Ramaswamy on Principles & Values
: Mar 28, 2023
We should embrace our national identity and be proud of it
[On American Exceptionalism]: "Most Republican politicians are afraid of the word 'nationalism.' They shouldn't be. America is grounded in ideals & truth," Mr. Ramaswamy says. "We should embrace our national identity & be proud of it.
That's good for America & for the free world. If that makes me a nonwhite nationalist, so be it."
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Source: Washington Times on 2024 Presidential hopefuls
Bernie Sanders on Principles & Values
: Feb 24, 2020
Jewish identity means end racism & white nationalism
Q: What does your Jewish identity mean to you? SANDERS: I can remember very vividly as a kid looking at picture books about the Holocaust.
As it happens, my father's family was wiped out by Hitler.
I learned at a very early age what white nationalism, which is what Nazism is in the extreme, is about. And I think at a very early age,
I learned that it is absolutely imperative--not just me--that all of us do everything we can to end all forms of racism and white nationalism. That's what my experience has--how it has impacted me.
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Source: CNN Town Hall on eve of 2020 South Carolina primary
Donald Trump on Civil Rights
: Jan 21, 2020
2017: removing Confederacy monuments destroys our heritage
A group of white supremacists held a "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. People marched on August 11 chanting, "Jews will not replace us," and on August 12 their celebration of white nationalism turned deadly when one of the
white supremacists deliberately drove his car into a crowd of peaceful counter protestors, killing one woman and injuring 28 others. Trump said there were "very fine people on both sides" and initially refused to condemn white supremacy.
This abdication of moral leadership was one of the lowest points in his presidency.
The white supremacist rally occurred during a time that around the country, monuments to the confederacy [were being removed]. Trump opposed what was happening. "Sad
to see the history & culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments," he tweeted on Aug. 17. Trump had told his aides many times that summer, "This is a shame. They're destroying our heritage."
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Source: A Very Stable Genius, by P.Rucker & C.Leonnig, p.154-5
Bernie Sanders on Homeland Security
: Aug 11, 2019
Violent white nationalists should be treated as terrorists
We have got to do a lot better job than we are doing right now in fighting the rise of white nationalism in this country. We need to understand that in El Paso what was committed was an act of domestic violence. So, I am a strong civil libertarian.
But I want to make sure that we do not see the rise of neo-fascism in this country and that we understand that those white nationalists, when they get involved in violence, are terrorists and should be treated as terrorists.
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Source: CBS Face the Nation interview for 2019 Democratic primary
Joe Biden on War & Peace
: Jul 11, 2019
End "forever wars" in Afghanistan & Middle East
"The world's democracies look to America to stand for the values that unite us.--Donald Trump seems to be on the other team," Biden said during a foreign policy speech, hammering the president for "embracing dictators who appeal to his vanity" and
emboldening a worldwide rise of nationalism, xenophobia and isolationism. Biden promised to "end the forever wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East" and terminate U.S. involvement in the Yemen civil war.
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Source: Seattle Times on 2019 Democratic primary
Joe Maldonado on Foreign Policy
: May 15, 2018
Libertarian way instead of American Exceptionalism
Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Support American Exceptionalism"?
A: No, I support the Libertarian way, which is all rights, all the people, all the time: free markets, the right to life, liberty and to own private property without taxes.
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Source: OnTheIssues interview of 2018 Oklahoma Governor candidate
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