Trump Is Not and Never Has Been Antiwar

The idea that he broke with conventional movement conservative and Republican foreign policy is nonsense.

There is a lot wrong in this paean to Trump, but I will focus on this ridiculous claim:

Only Trump has broken from the disastrous foreign policy championed by the conservative movement.

The evidence given for this supposed break is that Trump attacked the Iraq war when he was a candidate and decided against attacking Iran in response to the downing of a U.S. drone. These are some very slender reeds on which to base such a sweeping claim about Trump’s foreign policy. As anyone even remotely familiar with Trump’s record knows, the idea that he broke with conventional movement conservative and Republican foreign policy is nonsense. It is something that some Trumpists tell themselves to make their ongoing support for a corrupt buffoon seem defensible in their own minds. The reality is that he mostly appointed Republican hard-liners to run his foreign policy, and he then presided over four years of foreign policy failures because he usually did what those hard-liners wanted. Another Trump administration would likely deliver more of the same reckless and destructive policies, and there should be no illusions about that.