The entire US foreign policy establishment shared soft-power dominance assumptions until Trump

Evidence

According to my friend M. Arsalan Suleiman—former Acting US Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) under President Barack Obama—this clash of civilizations ideology animated many of the Trump administration’s most identifiable policies. These policies included the debates over the US-Mexico border wall, immigration reform, refugee resettlement, the Muslim Travel Bans, undermining the Iran nuclear deal, possible Muslim Brotherhood terrorist designation, aggressive posturing vis-à-vis China, and efforts to ally with Russia. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 685 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Trump’s foreign policy swapped liberal for illiberal hegemony while keeping empire — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 514; Trump’s America First foreign policy was illiberal hegemony, not isolationism.; Soft power discourse framed US dominance as benign across the establishment (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Clash-of-civilizations ideology animated the Trump administration’s core policies #complicates (0.71) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 685