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On the recordOctober 15, 2017
To fear the world we have organized, and led the three quarters of the century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain the last best hope of earth for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems. Is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.
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John McCain
Republican · Arizona

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John McCain expressed concerns about abandoning international leadership and criticized nationalism, which he implied was associated with Donald Trump.

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