Bill Vallicella has a fine post up at Substack today, in which he responds to the complaint that for an American president to speak of “America First” is, as Bill Kristol put it a few years back, “depressing and vulgar”.
My only quibble with the piece is that Bill didn’t unpack, for those who might not be familiar with it, the etymology of “vulgar”. (It comes from Latin vulgus, meaning “the common people”.)
Read it here.