{"id":12691,"date":"2020-10-28T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12691"},"modified":"2020-10-27T22:09:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T05:09:40","slug":"trumpism-then-now-and-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trumpism-then-now-and-in-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Trumpism: Then, Now\u2014and in the Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What was, is, and will be the Trump agenda?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Against all odds, what elected Trump in 2016 was a recalibration of American foreign and domestic policy\u2014and the art of politicking itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Doctrine and Policy<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In foreign affairs, the United States would no longer adhere to every aspect of the 75-year-old postwar order it created\u2014given the world now bore little resemblance to the world of 1945.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior bipartisan foreign policy had often ossified to the point of enhancing the power of our enemies, weakening our complacent friends, and terribly damaging our own power. When Trump entered office, ISIS was proving that it was hardly a \u201cJV\u201d organization. North Korea was recklessly testing missiles and bragging of its nuclear-tipped rockets pointed at our West Coast.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel and the moderate Arab regimes were ostracized as part of the insane Obama empowerment of theocratic Iran and its quest for a radical crescent encompassing Syria, Lebanon, Hezbollah, and Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/10\/25\/trumpism-then-now-and-in-the-future\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness What was, is, and will be the Trump agenda?&nbsp; Against all odds, what elected Trump in 2016 was a recalibration of American foreign and domestic policy\u2014and the art of politicking itself. Doctrine and Policy In foreign affairs, the United States would no longer adhere to every aspect of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3iH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11149,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-seeks-middle-ground-in-foreign-policy-balancing-act\/","url_meta":{"origin":12691,"position":0},"title":"Trump Seeks Middle Ground in Foreign-Policy Balancing Act","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The best course is to use overwhelming military force only when the interests or credibility of America and its allies are on the line. 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