Trump’s Churchillian Foreign Policy

Trump’s Churchillian Foreign Policy
Sir Winston Churchill addresses the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ont., in December 1941. National Archives of Canada
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Commentary

Knowingly or not, President Donald Trump, in his decision to attack Iran, has embarked on a foreign policy that has been, on and off, both persistent and controversial in the great English-speaking nations. You can trace it back at least to the Glorious Revolution of 1688–89: the ouster of King James II of England and his replacement by his son-in-law and nephew William, Prince of Orange, and his daughter Mary, as William III and Mary II.

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Michael Barone
Michael Barone
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Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and longtime co-author of “The Almanac of American Politics.” His latest book is “Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America’s Revolutionary Leaders.”