In early Chicago Council surveys, Republicans and Democrats tended to also agree on the prioritization of an overlapping set of foreign policy goals for the nation: protecting the jobs of American workers, maintaining the value of the dollar, securing adequate supplies of energy, pursuing worldwide arms control, and containing the spread of communism. Republicans ranked mass immigration and refugees into the U.S., the development of China as a world power, and Iran’s nuclear program among these threats, while Democrats ranked a weakening of democracy in the nation, climate change, and a global economic downturn. “It would be best to have a foreign policy and a government that is trying to address the needs and concerns of Americans, regardless of political affiliations, but the way things have been going in the past 15 years, it gets harder and harder to see the political will to cater to all Americans, not just those who represent your base,” Smeltz told RS.
Author: March 24, 2026
Published at: 2026-03-24 00:00:00
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