Understanding Donald Trump’s Very Un-Republican Foreign Policy

Jul 22, 2016, 05:18 PM

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Donald Trump is far more interested in winning over crowds than adhering to any kind of Republican foreign policy orthodoxy. These five facts detail the divergence between a traditional Republican approach to the world and the views of a candidate selling a foreign policy as iconoclastic as the man himself.

  1. Trade

Once upon a time—all of six months ago—America’s business friendly party was the GOP, and being pro-business meant being pro-trade.