With the 2020 election approaching, the political pitfalls ahead for the first-term Republican president could be serious. While Trump enjoys overwhelming support from his party, there is little appetite among his loyalists for a new military conflict in the Middle East. Foreign policy hawks in the GOP who have long embraced a muscular foreign policy have been marginalized in recent years, dismissed as “globalists.”By contrast, Democrats are now far more likely than Republicans to say the U.S. should play a more active role in solving the world’s problems. While military conflict would likely be unpopular among Republican voters, the politics on Iran are nuanced. At the same time, he said, “Nobody believes there’s going to be a war.”“What Trump promised in regards to our foreign policy is ‘America First,”‘ Meckler continued.

Source: National Post May 17, 2019 22:30 UTC