Fiona Hill’s Un-American Idea of America American Greatness, Nov 28, 2019
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Left-wing Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch argued immigration became the hidden story of the impeachment proceedings. “It’s a story about a United States that was a safe haven for refugees fleeing totalitarianism and genocide,” he wrote, “and how the people saved by that generosity became zealous defenders of America—only to see a dangerous demagogue threaten to drag their country into a muck that looked much like the faraway lands they’d escaped.”
New York Times columnist Roger Cohen fawned over Hill’s testimony as the true being of America and claimed Trump’s message should really be “Deny what America is.” Apparently, unelected immigrant bureaucrats are the real America, not “deplorables” in flyover country.
The columnists are right to see the immigration angle in the impeachment hearings—they just take the wrong position on it.
The witnesses are an argument against arrogant immigrants like Fiona Hill running America’s foreign policy. They show contempt for middle America and believe they are the real America. They consider opposition to their foreign-policy agenda to be un-American and possibly treasonous. To attack one of them is akin to burning the Constitution.
“Our nation is being torn apart. Truth is questioned. Our highly professional and expert career foreign service is being undermined,” Hill warned in her testimony, signaling that our “expert career foreign service” must never face criticism.
Most of the “damning” testimony at the hearings focused on how awful it was that Trump delayed funding to Ukraine and how he criticized Yovanovitch. It was lost on these witnesses that they are supposed to serve our elected representatives and not serve themselves. Their foreign policy agenda was rejected when Americans elected Donald Trump.
To Hill and her colleagues, America must be globalism’s policeman. America has to give Ukraine aid without strings attached—American interests apparently are threatened if there is any delay or questions raised about where this money goes. Russia is the ultimate enemy and must be challenged at every turn, even if it’s not quite clear how American interests are served by this hostility. America is obligated to interfere, meddle, and even invade other nations that fall off the globalist reservoir.