Posted on 10/27/2019 6:23:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Forget about getting a backbone. America needs an iron constitution for the era of great power competition now upon us.
So warns conservative scholar Colin Dueck in his new book, “Age of Iron: On Conservative Nationalism” (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Dueck, a former “Never Trumper,” starts and ends his book with an unexpected assertion that Founding Fathers George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the rest of the cast of “Hamilton” would have been perfectly content with President Trump’s foreign policies.
What’s more, he argues, Trump policies will help 21st century America deal effectively with modern threats posed by the likes of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. […]
In practice, Dueck finds, Trump is doing what the vast majority of American conservatives want. They are unlikely to part ways with their president. …
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
-peace through strength (a free people will not survive unless they stay strong)
-avoiding entangling alliances
(peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none) - Thomas Jefferson
No more military adventures.
“..a former Never-Trumper” ... Nice phrase to hear, all too rare.
I think more folks are moving away from being never-Trumpers. To not be would be ignoring the obvious.
Getting closer...
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