Understanding Trumpism: the New President's Foreign Policy

Author(s): John Thompson
Journal Title: Sirius
Volume: 1
Issue: 2
Pages: 109-115
Publication Year: 2017

This article argues that the president does not have a grand strategic vision, aside from a vague conviction that the liberal world order is not benefiting the U.S. Instead, at the heart of Trumpism is an effort to mobilize and maintain the support of the presidentʼs political base, which is displeased with the direction of the country, around a message of staunch nationalism, anti-elitism, and anti-globalization. It appears to be working.

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