Short entry here—but basically I hope our side isn’t increasingly sympathetic to neocons or to warmonger types. I”m not ONLY talking about the current alarming tragic situation in Turkey, but the general foreign policy stance and language.
We don’t have to be 100% isolationist, Ron Paul style, but also I get nervous when we echo “tough guy” cowboy Republican talk. I mean the fact that he doesn’t listen to warmongering neocon experts is actually a good thing! Imagine a trigger happy President Rubio.
On foreign policy, the problem with Trump is not that he has isolationist sensibilities and that he’s ok using carrots more than Republicans are. It’s that he’s corrupt AF (Ukraine). It’s that he’s amoral (chumminess Saudi Arabia). The problem is not being willing to talk face to face with Kim Jong-Un. The problem is he genuinely, alarmingly admires and wants to be a strongman like them.
So the problem is Trump himself. Let’s not lose sight of that—the problem isn’t a restrained USA; trying to avoid wars; etc. All things that the NeoCons hate.
I just hope a new hawkish left doesn’t emerge.