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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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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For Neocons, it is either Munich or Vietnam. Perennially 1938 or 1968. When in reality a lot of it is avoiding the temptation for great powers to make bad situations worse by “doing something”
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Yeah, I was one of those guys before I wised up.
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None of us is without sin here - but we all learn from prior errors. There are problems with Iran in the Levant but that is why you try and strengthen Lebanon’s armed forces rather than the utterly Sisyphean task of Syrian regime change
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I'm not the one here who favored bombing Syria on solely humanitarian groundshttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43707023 …
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