Aside from immigration, Trump on every issue either moved the GOP to the left or left it as he found it.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
Except for moving away from Wilsonian interventionism, focusing natsec fights on actual threats, exiting Paris (contra Romney’s pleas!), judges, regulations, NATO requirements, pro-life posture, trans in military, fighting statue removals/desecration of history, sure.
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Replying to @MZHemingway
Most of those were already GOP orthodoxy before Trump - pro-life? originalist judges? Deregulation? All since Reagan. The only difference you cite is his shift to the left in resisting American influence & engagement abroad.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
He was 1st to address pro-life March, deregulated dramatically more than anyone in history, took judges to whole new level (I co-wrote book that goes through that in detail), & Wilsonian interventionism is NOT conservative, and he moved back to a GW/Ike/Reagan direction on that
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Replying to @MZHemingway
The only actual policy change - as opposed to things that most everybody else ran on by 2016 - was his pacifistic leaning on foreign policy. I know you prefer that, but it is still a left-leaning Howard Dean policy. Ditto on trade, entitlements, spending.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @MZHemingway
Yes, Trump smashed the calcified orthodoxy on foreign policy, and it deserved every bit of it. Viewing it as Hawk/Dove is silly—also: it’s far more conservative to prefer bilateral agreements (as Trump did) to multilateral ones.
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Replying to @davereaboi @MZHemingway
Bilateral > multilateral was, as you may recall, a major W push; that was at the heart of the "coalition of the willing" vs "global test" fight of the 2004 election. Not remotely new with Trump.
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Hold on there ... Are you arguing that the president who out-Wilsoned Wilson in his love of benign and beneficent interventions abroad was some kind of Kissinger realist because he asked Great Britain etc. for help directly after the "International Community" told him no?
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Bush went into two countries, one of which attacked us during his presidency, the other of which we were already formally at war with.
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