What is America's role in the world?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : It is a nation founded on the liberal principles that emerged in the Enlightenment: Religious liberty, inviolable property rights, and the freedoms of expression and association are foundational.
51% : The post-Cold War assumption that the trend toward liberal democracy and capitalism was evolutionary and inevitable has proven to be not only false but also China's opening to exploit and pervert the very institutions we built to encourage that trend.
45% : Yet most of the divisive debates will serve to confuse ordinary Americans and make Russia, China, and Iran happy as they see America stymied by its own dysfunction.
44% : In dealing with its most immediate adversary, Russia, the European Union has failed to respond to at least a decade of unacceptably aggressive actions, including invasions, failed coups, murders, and terrorist acts on EU territory; support for and encouragement of European separatist movements; massive anti-vaccination disinformation social media campaigns and repeated attempts to sway European elections, most recently in Germany.
42% : North Korea, Iran, and China seize and trade hostages for diplomatic concessions.
41% : Early on, it protected the world from socialism and communism.
39% : This means bolstering our economy through deregulation and freeing critical supply chains from a Chinese chokehold.
38% : He yielded billions of dollars in sanctions relief to the Islamic Republic of Iran while minimizing the threat of Islamism and other malign ideologies.
34% : America thereby left our own behind, condemned Afghan women and civilians to a terrible fate, relinquished counterterrorism surveillance, ceded influence to Russia, China, and Iran, and destroyed trust.
14% : He reversed some of Obama's worst policies, notably on Iran, but his transactional "America First" foreign policies eroded the Order further.

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