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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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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Intervening in countries for solely humanitarian reasons, without identifying an enemy & taking sides, is liberal interventionism. Clinton, Obama, Wilson. Not what W, Reagan, or Ike did. (Except Reagan in Lebanon, which he admitted was a mistake).
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Probably a good time to re-up this, from 2003 http://baseballcrank.com/archives2/2003/07/war_liberia_lib.php … and this from 2011 http://baseballcrank.com/archives2/2011/03/war_libya.php …
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Thanks. Will read later.
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