President Biden's defenders have invoked the mantra that 'politics stops at the water's edge' after criticism of his handling of the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
,"Just add 'politics stops at the water's edge' to the list of American principles jettisoned to own libs."Republicans were the"enemy" for criticizing Biden as the U.S."works to keep alliances strong."
MSNBC’s Joy Reid agreed with the notion that domestic political beef shouldn’t affect foreign policy.in response to the tweet. Biden, however, was not abroad, but in the White House.The phrase, attributed to Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, a Republican from Michigan who supported Democratic President Harry Truman during the aftermath of World War II, is being used to scold Republicans as the Ukraine-Russia crisis escalates.
"The media have either played the role of stenographer for the Biden administration in claiming they will do this or that to make it seem as though they're decisive, or made him a passive character in this global crisis," Houck continued."In other words, it's a throwback to the Obama playbook. Joy Reid is too busy constructing strawmen the size of Mount Everest about education and how conservatives want to teach history to correctly understand foreign policy.
"Washington’s political class has long observed the maxim that politics should end at the water’s edge," Allen wrote. "But it wasn’t just the G-7 communiqué that prompted rebukes of Trump during his foreign travels.
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