During a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, guest Mike Benz, a former Trump speechwriter, articulated a fusion of leftist critiques of U.S. foreign policy with right-wing agendas. He highlighted the problematic legacy of U.S. Agency for International Development's complicity in drug trades and covert operations underlining a unique critique that challenges traditional Republican views on international development. This surprising alliance with critiques typically held by leftist thinkers indicates a significant ideological shift, aiming to justify dismantling U.S.A.I.D. and aligning it with the MAGA movement's broader deregulatory ambitions.
The MAGA movement is fighting the ghost of Ronald Reagan, Mr. Benz said, referring to the former president's support for international development.
For decades, influential thinkers on the left have criticized American soft-power programs, covert operations and military presence abroad as parts of a particularly American form of imperialism.
Mr. Rogan's guest... was a former speechwriter in President Trump's first administration named Mike Benz, whose work has been cited regularly by Elon Musk as justification for shutting down U.S.A.I.D.
This might be the most literally radical: the borrowing of historically left-wing critiques of American power to justify the right-wing ambition of dismantling longstanding government agencies.
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