It’s too early to write any kind of definitive assessment about the “America First” movement. But one observation that we can make — and it’s a very welcome change — is that foreign affairs don’t matter as much to Americans as they once did. The internal dysfunction of other nations, thousands of miles away from our borders, simply isn’t that relevant to most people anymore. It was never relevant, but now millions of people realize that.
Take the recent attacks on the right to freedom of speech, for example. We’ve discussed how Australia outlawed certain forms of prayer, saying it’s akin to “conversion therapy.” Meanwhile, the UK sentenced a mother named Lucy Connolly to 30 months in prison because of a mean tweet that she wrote about so-called “asylum seekers,” which she deleted after three hours. Connolly’s arrest, according to British journalists, was one of about 30 arrests concerning online speech that take place every day — yes, every day — in the UK.
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