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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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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Replying to @baseballcrank @MZHemingway
Of course not saying it’s new—but Trump foreign policy a lot more sophisticated than hawk/dovehttps://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/20/the-trump-doctrine-big-think-america-first-nationalism/ …
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Replying to @davereaboi @MZHemingway
Agreed as to the overall policy, but it's more sophisticated only in the sense that party & natsec veterans moderated the Michael Moore instincts of his campaign. All the parts Trump himself & his personal loyalists introduced were pulling the agenda leftwards.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @MZHemingway
I guess I fundamentally disagree with your definitions of left and right on foreign policy.
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Replying to @davereaboi @MZHemingway
Knee-jerk opposition to American power is a left-wing thing. It has been all my life.
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That the left was the main source of garment-rending rage at American influence overseas in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s? We all lived through those decades.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @MZHemingway
don’t see evidence of Trump raging against American power. Just the opposite. Sure, there’s an element of 20/20 hindsight, when it comes to Iraq and Afg—but Trump is 100% correct when he says those wars were massive mistakes. Could’ve turned out differently, but they didn’t.
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