But then almost all Americans are rightwing on foreign policy. Democratic administrations are about as rightwing on foreign policy as Republican administrations. It’s all pro-Zionist, pro-multinational corporations, pro-neoliberalism, pro-”free trade”, pro-corporate, and pro-Empire. Both parties do not waver much from any of these solid principles.
The Democrats do tend to be more progressive than the Republicans on domestic policy (though lately their version of “liberalism” is so rightwing that it is almost pitiful. Nevertheless, even as the Democrats endlessly chase the Republicans to the Right on domestic policy, the Democrats always represent a much superior choice from a progressive POV than the Republicans, who are truly terrifying.
I figure that on foreign policy, the average American is probably completely brainwashed and utterly reactionary. I am always shocked at how even rightwing even solid “Democratic Party liberals” are on US foreign policy. Going against US foreign policy is still seen as treason, even by US liberals. I can’t count how many US liberals who said, “America, love it or leave it” when I attacked US foreign policy.
Republicans and Democrats usually only differ on the stuff that’s close to home. On foreign affairs, the US power elite has us all pretty well hopelessly brainwashed.