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Checks and Balance from The Economist

Checks and Balance: Well enough alone?

Checks and Balance from The Economist

The Economist

Politics, News & Politics, News, Us Politics

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On foreign policy, trade and immigration, the Republican Party wants America to push the world away. This is a departure, but also a return to what the party used to believe. How did the Republican Party go from isolationism to internationalism and then back again? And what does that mean for America’s foreign policy?


John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Idrees Kahloon. They’re joined by Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, and The Economist’s Edward Carr.


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0:56.6

When it came time for George Washington to retire,

0:59.0

he spent months working on his farewell address.

1:02.4

With drafts sent back and forth with Alexander Hamilton,

1:05.8

in the end the goodbye was 6,000 words long.

1:09.5

It's still remembered, among other things,

1:11.6

for what it says about other countries.

1:14.9

Washington advised his successors to steer clear of permanent alliances

1:19.6

and avoid favours or preferences in trade.

1:23.2

The strain of isolationism in the farewell address long outlived the first president,

1:28.3

but unlike his inaugural addresses, he didn't deliver it to Congress or other officials.

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