How messed up are Trump Supporters?

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No presidential candidate hit the isolationist drum harder than Donald Trump. His “America First” agenda reflects a belief that voters have tired of fighting wars and signing “bad” trade deals. Even Never Trumpers like the historian Robert Kagan maintain that Americans no longer want to lead, see little value in having allies, and oppose free trade. They just want to come home. As Charles Krauthammer once said, “Isolationism seems the logical, God-given foreign policy for the United States.”

There’s only one problem with the notion that Americans want to retreat from the world: They don’t. They tell pollsters they favor a broad and active role for the United States, and they have done so for decades. If anything, public support for American leadership abroad has increased as voters have seen firsthand what “America First” means in practice.

(Washington Post)