1. The ascension of Bolton is a good opportunity to revisit some popular misunderstandings about the neo-cons & Iraq War.
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5. The radical nationalists are the least understood of the major GOP foreign policy factions. It's the tradition of James Burnham, Jesse Helms, & Bolton: raw assertion of USA power for sake of global hegemony with no pretext of democracy.
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6. More context for Bolton & how he fits into GOP history (and why this is bad news):https://newrepublic.com/article/147640/scarier-neoconserative-john-bolton-radical-nationalist …
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Where do you place George W?
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Many of the neo-cons (Frum, Kagan, etc) are persona non grata in the Trump GOP, as are many of the realists.
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4th faction: Holy warrior madmen (Bannon, Flynn, Ledeen)
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This reminds me of Walter Russell Mead's ideas about different foreign policy traditions, with the realists, neo-cons, and nationalists standing in for the Hamiltonians, right-wing Wilsonians, and Jacksonians, respectively.
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What about the nationalist/isolationist faction (Buchanan, Bannon), that also opposed regime change in Iraq and foreign interventions?
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