Being America first is not something you as an American should have to announce to anyone. It is all pretty simple, yet people try to complicate it while also stripping it of nuance. They also love to conflate America first with America only, even though being an isolationist in today’s world would significantly hurt America. Alliances that help maintain American dominance in the world are a good thing. An America only isolationist stance is, to put it mildly, incredibly stupid. It would effectively end the dollar as the reserve currency, which would in turn destroy American economics and likely crash our entire economy and then the world’s economy, yet other nations would quickly reestablish deals with each other and recover much faster than we could. It would also remove our influence on foreign nations and allow China or Russia to move forward on the world stage, peddling influence for power while we tried to recover from our disastrous decision. It would then take us out of the decision making process for international affairs, which would mean some other power would lead in those efforts and make decisions that benefited them and not us. Just like you trudging through the world alone without family, friends, or coworkers to help you would be pretty lonely and stupid, the same is true for nations. There are allies and there are enemies. There are good allies and mediocre ones. There are worse enemies and insignificant ones. Discernment is important, because nothing happens in a vacuum. These concepts are only difficult for someone trying to push a narrative to get you to think or believe a certain way. Don’t fall for it.