Many of the news sources on the internet (especially nonAmerican ones and CBS) are downright slamming Bolton, the United States, or both on this argument. The United States should withdraw from the United Nations and the institution's main headquarters can go to Geneva. What is Middle America anyway, a pejorative expression for American rustics? The United Nations, for the most part, has neither helped the United States nor the world.
In elite parlance, "Middle America" means "Red State America", where all us hicks and rubes hang out -- making moonshine, shootin' guns and watchin' NASCAR.