Walter Russell Mead asserts in a new piece in Foreign Affairs that what he labels “Jacksonian national populism” and “Jeffersonian isolationism” have both made a significant comeback in the twenty-first century. According to Mead, George W. Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq mirrors Jacksonian populism, and Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 signalled the collapse of neoconservatism in the American electorate. Shockingly, he also asserts that both parties have been dominated by restraint and free trade. His article emphasizes the collapse of liberal globalism, and the importance of a return to...
The Canard of a ‘Hamiltonian Foreign Policy’
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