Toward a foreign policy for the working class

This article was written by Mohammed Soliman, a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute and Andrew Hanna, a former Congressional staffer serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The political center of gravity in America has shifted toward the working class on both sides of the aisle. This is a good thing. There is an opportunity now to make the bipartisan populist shift actually serve the American working class. To revive the American Dream, national security elites should reorient their efforts away from defending broken global institutions and toward relentlessly advancing the interests of the American working class. 

America today faces the twenty-first-century version of Tertullian’s question: What do DC, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley have to do with the working class? Our blueprint for a foreign policy for the working class has three main pillars: physical and economic security for Americans, reindustrialization and technical education, and patriotic capitalism. A critical fourth overarching theme buttresses these pillars: faith in America. Our plan is ambitious, but if implemented correctly, it would have deeper buy-in from the American people and clearly demonstrate the concrete benefits of engaging with the world beyond our shores. 

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