Opinion: Democrats are playing down foreign policy. It’s shrewd — and it may be a mistake.
By E.J. Dionne Jr. E.J. Dionne Jr. Columnist covering national politics Email Bio Follow Columnist May 5 at 6:53 PM Why aren’t Democratic presidential candidates talking more about foreign policy?
And if the Democrats running for president are concentrating their energies on domestic goals, well, that is what the voters want, too. John Halpin, a CAP senior fellow and lead author of the study, pointed out a paradox: Most Americans dislike Trump’s approach, but his distance from the old foreign policy establishment is a political asset.
Using 20 survey questions to capture voters’ priorities and values, the researchers found that the largest group, 33 percent of voters, could be described as “Trump nationalists.” They prioritized military spending, fighting terrorism, focusing on concerns at home and opposing the United States’ role as the world’s policeman.
Taken together, the activists and the internationalists outnumber the nationalists by a margin of nearly 3 to 2. But the fissures between advocates of newer and older forms of global engagement show how hard creating a consensus against Trumpism could be. An analysis undertaken by CAP at my request demonstrated that a bipartisan foreign policy is not in the cards. Among Democrats, 48 percent are global activists and 10 percent are Trump nationalists.
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