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I think that's the wrong question to be asking. The people who elected Trump don't want a foreign policy. As much as possible, they want isolationism. To the d
by jfengel 1y ago
I think that's the wrong question to be asking. The people who elected Trump don't want a foreign policy. As much as possible, they want isolationism.
To the degree that we have to deal with other countries, they don't want anything that we'd recognize as "policy". That implies a lot of overhead and complexity that they feel is unnecessary.
Viewed that way, "foreign policy" is an outdated way of thinking. It's an artifact of entrenched, elitist bureaucracies. That's precisely the swamp that Trump was sent to drain.
I happen to think that this is a very bad idea, but if my ideas were so darn great, why didn't my side win the last election?
There are also Republicans who disagree, but they were also part of the bureaucracy to be swept aside. They have to choose whether they want to get on board with the new (better) way of thinking, or become irrelevant.