For the past eight years, the two major political parties have been gripped by a messy and ongoing realignment. It began with the election of Donald Trump in 2016, which was a major repudiation of the neoconservative-establishment coalition that had dominated the Republican Party since the presidency of George W. Bush.
Trump's condemnation of the war in Iraq-which he correctly said was sold on lies-and his skepticism of continuing to fund radical Islamists in a misguided attempt to overthrow the government in Syria drove some of the staunchest Bush-era neoconservatives to leave the Republican Party and do everything they could to keep Trump out of power.
Trump's four years in office only accelerated the realignment.
Of course, Donald Trump stuck around after leaving office and is now, for the third time, the Republican nominee for President.
O'Brien presents his article as "Making the case for Trump's foreign policy." But despite being dressed up in some new language, the agenda he presents is largely the same old establishment interventionism.
Even the war in Ukraine, on which Trump has been relatively good, is framed as having only happened because the US was not intervening enough in Eastern Europe in recent years.
O'Brien does quickly mention that Trump wants a negotiated end to the war, but quickly moves on to celebrate all the lethal aid that'll be sent to Ukraine and all the American military units that will be moved closer to Russia.
Many right-wing commentators and influencers have tried to capitalize on all the populist energy driving the Trump movement to bolster their careers while sneaking in a standard establishment foreign policy.
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