The New Liberal Know Nothings

The New Liberal Know Nothings - WSJ
...Try naming three prominent liberals or Democratic heavyweights who support the president on trade.
Such is the state of a party in which Barack Obama is the extreme-right flank.
...It’s not that Democrats don’t have thoughts or position papers on Iraq, ISIS, the Mideast.
It’s just that they don’t particularly care about any of it.
Mentally, they’ve checked out of the great-power game.
...Oh, but there’s Iran. 
As details of the pending agreement become clearer—no snap inspections of Iran’s military sites; no snapback sanctions; no credible U.S. military options on the table; no restrictions on Iran’s missiles; no answers about its past nuclear weapons work; no promises to release Americans held by Iran; no moderating of Iran’s regional behavior; an upfront $150 billion bribe in the form of sanctions relief—so too does the scale of the administration’s capitulation.
Negotiations with Iran now amount to a diplomatic strip tease, the only difference being that Washington both takes it off and doles out the dollars.
...It’s worth noting that the original name for the Know Nothings was the Native American Party, though somebody must have thought better of that one.
Later it was renamed the American Party.
“Americanism” has usually been the cause of people who imagine that they can keep the world at bay, either by shutting our doors or closing our eyes. 
It never works. 
Boorishness is a bad basis for policy, and so is blindness.