While President Donald Trump made a lot of contradictions in his State of the Union address pertaining to foreign policy, wars, and regime change, the overall sentiment was that it’s an improvement of the last 30 years. He may not be a full-blown non-interventionist like Ron Paul, but at least he is showing The Swamp’s true colors on the left and the right, and is (possibly?) winding down some of these foreign adventures, particularly in Afghanistan and Syria.
Jeff Deist, head of the Mises Institute, sent out an interesting tweet after the SOTU, thanking Dr. Paul for reviving the anti-war right:
“@RonPaul deserves a lot of credit for challenging Bush II & the neoconservative FP establishment in the early 2000s– when @NRO called him a traitor for opposing the Iraq war.
Applause for ending “foolish wars” in SOTU owes much to Dr. Paul’s revival of the antiwar Right.”
.@RonPaul deserves a lot of credit for challenging Bush II & the neoconservative FP establishment in the early 2000s– when @NRO called him a traitor for opposing the Iraq war.
Applause for ending “foolish wars” in SOTU owes much to Dr. Paul’s revival of the antiwar Right.
— Jeff Deist (@jeffdeist) February 6, 2019
Has Paul really revived the anti-war right? Well, it’s a lot better than it was at the turn of the century, when anyone who opposed the Iraq War was referred to as a traitor.
Remember the ridiculous French Fries/Freedom Fries controversy? That was foreign policy discourse at the time.
More Republicans are opposed to the status quo; it’s the establishment RINOs (Lindsey Graham and Co.) that are deadset of maintaining these foreign interventions. The future of the GOP is likely leaning more in the direction of Paul’s non-interventionist slant rather than the neocon/neolib perpetual policeman of the world.
The spirit of Robert Taft may once again infiltrate the Republican Party.
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