Foreign Entanglements: Trump World
By On the latest episode of Foreign Entanglements, Dan Nexon and I talk Trump:
- What the Frank Gaffney story says about Trump’s transition team 4:29
- Dan: Bolton is better than Giuliani 7:43
- The mystery of what Trump’s foreign policy will look like 5:34
- Dan to foreign leaders: Hope for the best, plan for the worst 8:30
- What should progressive foreign policy look like? 8:39
- The importance of having allies 5:53
Also, make sure to read Dan’s excellent post on institutions in the era of Trump:
This is a ~3.5k word essay on why the biggest threat posed by a Trump Presidency is to liberal-republican institutions at home and abroad. It suggests placing specific policy debates on the back burner in favor of forming and maintaining a broad political coalition—one aimed at preserving those two aspects of American liberal order. In brief, you can always change tax rates, but once democratic institutions and America’s web of international partnerships are gone, they will be monumentally difficult to put back together. Focusing on this kind of action is a matter of prudence; one hopes that it proves unnecessary. The essay does not discuss the fate of democracy in other countries, although that to remains a major concern. The piece collects and synthesizes arguments that I have made in other social media, most notably Twitter.