A rare, underappreciated drama broke out in last week’s Democratic presidential debate in Ohio: The candidates had a serious argument over foreign policy. Trump is breaking with a Republican foreign policy tradition that’s been in place since 1952, when Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated the isolationist Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio for the GOP nomination. He’s getting furious rhetorical pushback from a few traditionalist Republicans in Congress, including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Trump “may be right on the politics,” said David Axelrod, a former strategist for President Obama. Almost certainly not — unless another blunder by Trump makes foreign policy a front-burner issue.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 20, 2019 12:56 UTC