As president, Trump oversaw a GOP that was split between those friendly to foreign wars and non-interventionists
A second Trump term may have more uniformity in advancing his vision: economic protectionism and less global military involvement
While Republicans have fallen more in line with Trump, so too have Democrats
The story
When Donald Trump entered the White House in 2017, the Republican Party’s political realignment — away from interventionism and free trade and toward non-interventionism and protectionism — was still relatively new.
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