The Chinese put China first. The Russians put Russia first. Israelis believe in Israel first.
So, what’s wrong with Americans seeking to put our country before a faceless, vacuous globalism that has eaten away at our manufacturing base, taken the lives of our best and brightest overseas, and threatened our standard of living for decades?
According to neoconservatives like Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, apparently a lot.
Kristol let out a tweetstorm before and during Donald Trump’s “America First” themed inauguration speech Friday, highlighted by this gem:
I'll be unembarrassedly old-fashioned here: It is profoundly depressing and vulgar to hear an American president proclaim "America First."
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 20, 2017
“Depressing and vulgar…” Wow! In a prime example a true globalist’s gloves coming off, Kristol and his neoconservative ilk can’t help but expose themselves for the anti-American hucksters they are.
In a classic example of the strawman fallacy, they like to link the movement to put our people first, just as every other nation does, to the often pro-Nazi “America First” movement that existed prior to World War II. But Trump is having none of it.
Abraham Foxman, former chairman of the Anti-Defamation League, told the Forward on Friday afternoon that he believes the Jewish community needs to get over its concerns over Trump’s use of the phrase. “My feeling is we should move off it,” he said. “During the campaign, some of us in the Jewish community communicated to him that we find it disturbing… I think he got the message and he feels like he’s not talking about ‘Germany First,’” Foxman said, referring to the phrase’s historical pro-Nazi connotations. “He’s talking about America first. And there’s nothing wrong with saying America first.”
Kristol’s tweet spread far and wide and got lots of attention on social media. Here are some great responses:
@MaxKennerly @BillKristol @David_Dobbs Its almost as if filling your country with foreigners and engaging in pointless wars are unpopular
— Current Month (@current_month) January 20, 2017
@zpaii @current_month @MaxKennerly @BillKristol @David_Dobbs If you dislike “America First” maybe you prefer “America Second or Third”.
— Ba Smith (@Ba_Smith_1) January 21, 2017
.@BillKristol Correct me if I’m wrong, but I could have sworn the presidents responsibility is the American people FIRST! Am I wrong?
— Kambree Kawahine Koa (@KamVTV) January 20, 2017
@Mike_P_Williams @KamVTV @BillKristol @latimes Wow, these arguments just get more sad and more pathetic. You lost, stop whining and deal with it.
— Scott Waterbury (@Waterburybro3) January 21, 2017
.@BillKristol Can you please tell me what country President Trump is supposed to put first over the American ppl.
— Kambree Kawahine Koa (@KamVTV) January 20, 2017
@bb8_wins @InvidiousDist @BillKristol and take care of your own vets and homeless/poor people before taking refugees! ????#AmericaFirst
— mariemccoy (@mariemcoy) January 20, 2017
@mariemcoy @InvidiousDist @BillKristol Exactly. As long as a vet is dying from lack of care or we have homeless, let Saudis take refugees
— Rogue BB8 (@bb8_wins) January 20, 2017
@bb8_wins @InvidiousDist @BillKristol not a difficult concept!! Charity begins at home. Security of homeland, protection of citizens! 1st.??
— mariemccoy (@mariemcoy) January 20, 2017
@BillKristol You believe it vulgar to want to help lift American people out of poverty? ? pic.twitter.com/kTaKfpj5di
— Dork Power (@Dork_Power) January 20, 2017
@BillKristol @MSNBC @CNBC @CNN @hardball @TheYoungTurks @CBSNews @ABCWorldNews America First, Don’t like it LEAVE!! That’s right Fake Media? pic.twitter.com/mKx83eLjzz
— TJ..Troy 4 short :) (@kuhnu2012) January 20, 2017
Here are a few of the other inauguration tweets from Kristol. Sadly, this sort of thing has become par for the course for this guy.
I just re-read Reagan's first inaugural. People who are claiming Trump's has much important in common with it should re-read it. It doesn't.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 20, 2017
I can't help but wonder what Gen. Mattis and Gen. Kelly–warriors who've fought for this country–think of this faux-tough guy performance.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 20, 2017
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 20, 2017
The America First Committee dissolved itself after Pearl Harbor, just over 75 years ago. Now "America First" is back.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 20, 2017
Terms that don't appear in Trump's address: liberty, equality, freedom (though "freedoms" used once), duty, Constitution, self-government.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 20, 2017
Trump claims "a historic movement, the likes of which the world has never seen before." Is this boastfulness just ludicrous, or dangerous?
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 20, 2017
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