In case you haven’t noticed, Donald Trump’s foreign policy thinking is unorthodox and, even by Republican standards, kinda scary. If you had missed that, Hillary Clinton intends to start pointing it out. Clinton is delivering a foreign policy speech on Thursday:
“Clinton will rebuke the fear, bigotry and misplaced defeatism that Trump has been selling to the American people,” an aide said. “She will make the affirmative case for the exceptional role America has played and must continue to play in order to keep our country safe and our economy growing.” [...]
The address will expand on themes Clinton sketched in a CNN interview in May, when she flatly said Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, is not qualified to be president. She ticked through positions the businessman has taken during a campaign few thought he could win. Among them: an apparent willingness to back out of the NATO alliance; a suggestion that the U.S. defense burden would be lightened if Japan and other nations acquired nuclear weapons; and his pledge to bar foreign Muslims from entering the United States.
Foreign policy isn’t likely to be one of the main issues driving votes this November, but some of the Republicans for whom it is a top priority say they’re not voting for Trump:
“I would support a random name in the phone book” over Trump, said Philip Zelikow, a University of Virginia history professor who was a State Department official in the George W. Bush administration.
It would be more likely to keep Trump out of the White House if that random name in the phone book was Hillary Clinton, you know. Just saying.