Trump Promises a Foreign Policy Shake-up

Donald Trump’s first administration was full of inter-party compromise. His second may be far more decisive.

Author

Anthony Constantini
October 19, 2024

  • 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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