Trump is… many things, but he is not an "isolationist" and certainly no dove. https://newrepublic.com/article/135775/liberals-keep-calling-donald-trump-dove … @charliearchy in @NewRepublic
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He's also an anti-Wilsonian. That is, he'll kill a lot of people but fewer in the long run than Hillary.
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Replying to @ThaddeusRussell @charliearchy
I share your assessment of HRC but with Trump his temperament & style mean at least as much as his promises.
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True enough but we can and in fact have to gauge risks + probabilities given what we know of him
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I'd say the worst scenario for a Trump foreign policy would be a neocon takeover of Defense, a la Bush...
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... But that would make his foreign policy equivalent to Clinton's.
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What you make of reports that he asked 3x in briefing about using nukes? Establishment alarmism or real interest in using?
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Replying to @ChaseMadar @ChMadar
Hard to know, of course. But in general he's less belligerent than Clinton. His position on Russia, e.g., is far better than HRC's.
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Agreed that the GOP plank adjustments re Russia are a good thing, sleazy or not.
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