Henry Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, editor at Unherd.com and author of “The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism.”Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s resignation confirms that President Trump is now forging foreign policy essentially on his own. This new “back to the future” foreign policy has been frequently presaged throughout the administration. When Trump questions the conservative foreign policy consensus, he is far from alone in his party. But that doesn’t mean Trump isn’t asking the right questions about U.S. foreign policy. ), and that will force defenders of the bipartisan foreign policy consensus to rethink the nature of that order.

Source: Washington Post December 21, 2018 00:10 UTC