Sorry Hillary — Americans are sick of foreign interventionism

At least in foreign policy, the major party candidates have ignored the sentiments of the American people.

Despite the warmongering of Hillary Clinton’s record and Donald Trump’s rhetoric, a Pew survey found that “the public remains wary of U.S. international involvement.”

Americans aren’t moving to a non-interventionist or isolationist habit of mind, but they’re still opposed to more war and nationbuilding.

“While more Americans say the U.S. does too much (41 percent) than say it does too little (27 percent) to solve world problems, the share saying the United States does too much globally is 10 percentage points lower than three years ago (51 percent),” the survey noted.

Where someone stands on America solving world problems depends on their political party. Only 28 percent of Americans say the U.S. does the “right amount” in helping. Only 17 percent of Republicans and 23 percent of independents think so, but 42 percent of Democrats agree with American action.
 
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