Building a Post-Trump Foreign Policy
Building a Post-Trump Foreign Policy
Progressives need to ground international commitments to democratic accountability at home and engage with social movements abroad. Few political figures have articulated this as clearly as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The most constructive outcome of Donald Trump’s second term would be to galvanize a global constituency to dee...
The strongest version of this narrative presents Ocasio-Cortez as a transformative figure in U.S. foreign policy, offering a progressive alternative to both Trump’s nationalism and the establishment’s status quo. Her approach—grounded in grassroots mobilization, human rights, and economic justice—challenges the assumption that U.S. primacy is natural and indispensable. The article effectively highlights the growing influence of progressive coalitions and the need for foreign policy to reflect de...
