‘Sinhala First’ Supremacism & Sovereignty: Gotabayaism In The Global Arena
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
Supremacism or Sovereignty? Though ethnoreligious supremacists think the two are intertwined if not twinned, the two cannot go together. It is a choice.
It would puzzle and perturb President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Sinhala supremacists that the incoming Biden administration rejects the thematic slogan and policy paradigm of “America First” while asserting that “America is back!” and aspiring to lead the world once again. The explicit critique and rejection of ‘America First’ was commenced by Jake Sullivan, the incoming National Security Advisor and Anthony Blinken, the incoming US Secretary of State. On New Year’s Day 2019 Blinken wrote a piece in in the Washington Post unambiguously entitled ‘America First is only making the world worse. Here’s a better approach’.