The Freedom Center’s new pamphlet, President Trump’s Foreign Policy Realism and Successes, is written by our Shillman Fellow, Professor Bruce Thornton, and compares the history of recent U.S. foreign policy with President Trump’s current foreign policy. Prof. Thornton reveals how traditional U.S. foreign policy has been based on wishful and dangerous thinking in its attempts at nation building and the following of the international “rules-based order”, while President Trump’s approach has restored America’s power of deterrence and global prestige.
President Trump’s Foreign Policy Realism and Successes unveils how President Trump has regenerated our realist foreign policy from the ashes of magical thinking and idealism about human nature and its destructive passions — which are, as Madison noted, “sown in the nature of man”