Why 'America First' Means Pro-European Union

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : To convert his America-First rhetoric into reality in a second term, Trump will need Europe to unify as a great power on the world stage -- and pro-EU centrists, not anti-EU right-populists, are the ones pushing for unification.
56% : Trump, for his part, instead of mocking Macron and casting the European Union as a "foe," should praise European integration as being in America's national interest.
55% : And Euroskeptic leaders outside France also feel an affinity with the 45th president, whose hostility to the European Union and forceful defense of nationalism they admire.
54% : Macron has a better relationship with President Joe Biden than with Trump, but realism teaches that, in an anarchic international system, individual leaders and their interpersonal bonds matter less than the distribution of military power.
53% : But the surge of right-populism across Europe could slow, if not reverse, European integration in the security sphere.
51% : Trump and Marine Le Pen, the face of the right-populist party, have long supported one another.
49% : But while Trump and the MAGA Republicans have a natural affinity with European right-populists, the two groups are not, upon closer examination, natural allies.
42% : And rather than simply disparaging NATO's over-reliance on America, Trump should offer an alternative vision: a "dormant NATO" that sees EU nations take the lead in Europe while the U.S. waits in the wings, ready to act, if needed, as an offshore balancer.
41% : Trump wants the U.S. to start disengaging militarily from Europe, but that's less likely to happen if the continent is torn apart by petit nationalisme.
31% : Trump, not Biden, is pushing Europe to stop being an American protectorate and become a legitimate world power, so that America can devote scarce resources elsewhere.

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